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From: s9407307@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Greg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 1G disk?
Date: 29 Jan 1995 00:35:59 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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prubin@csws15.ic.sunysb.edu (Paul E Rubin) writes:


> Hi folks. I wanted to know if FreeBSD can handle disks that are 
>>= 540MB. Something like a 1G disk for example. I know that Linux has
>some problems with big disks, was wondering if the same kind of problems 
>exists in FreeBSD-1.1.5.1

I have a 1GB IDE drive and it worked fine on both FreeBSD 1.1 and FreeBSD2.0
so I can see no reason why it won't work on 1.1.5.1...
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             Greg Boug. Comp. Sci student at RMIT in Australia
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