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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI geometry on 9GB Seagate
Date: 1 Dec 1995 00:27:30 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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David Bixby <bix@otcinc.com> wrote:
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] I am having problems installing a 9GB Seagate ST410800N drive.
[ ... ]
] Creating a partition and running disklabel causes a panic shutdown.
] Help!!! Any thoughts/advice/solutions appreciated in advance.
Uh, how big a partition?
DOS partitioning is limited to 8G, period.
Disklabel is (I think) also limited to 8G offsets.
You will need to make 2 or more (probably at least 3 to force them
below 4G each) partitions.
Or fix the slice code and modify disklabel handling yourself.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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