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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 1.6G drives Date: 20 Jul 1996 16:15:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4sr0ma$4ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4smiv7$dh5@stratus.skypoint.net> <4sph1v$22s@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > Patrick Sonnek (psonnek@skypoint.com) wrote: > : I am looking at purchasing a second hard drive. I've been seeing several > : posts concerning problems with have a drive large than 1G [...] > My laptop only understands 504Mb disks, I have a 300Mb DOS partition and a > 780Mb FreeBSD "slice" :-) news.sax.de runs perfectly with a 9 GB drive. ;) Not to mention Satoshi's experiments to crunch several dozens of 4 GB drives into a single large filesystem using ccd... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)