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From: Werner Backes <backes@inm.uni-sb.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1.1 and Large Drives
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 20:54:11 +0100
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Ankush Narula wrote:

> 
> I'm wondering if the drive is too big for such an old Sun.

No, I have the same drive (Seagate Elite 9GB) attachted to a 
Solbourne running SunOS 4.1.1 and it works fine. But the size
of a partition is limited to 2 GB so you have to create at least
5 partitions to use the full drive. Before you can create the
filesystems (newfs) you have to create partition, using the
"partition"-tool. Did you do that ?

I hope this helps ..

Werner



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