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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with setting for 21GB (CDR-5400 Controller) RAID Date: 17 Apr 1996 21:53:33 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4l3p8t$6dq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4kukqg$dvn@taxis.corp.titan.com> 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 daroger@tisc.com (David A. Roger) writes: >My question are: > >1. Disk units > 2GB on FreeBSD - do I have to go up to 2.1 to be >supported? I'm not aware that they were not supported on 2.0.5. However, simply try to boot a 2.1R installation floppy, and setup the disk as a new disk. Then you'd know for sure whether it works. >2. Is there Max partition sizes in FreeBSD? Will I have to partition >to something like 2GB. I forgot the max partition size. I think it's 2^63 bytes. >3. Drive Geometry?, In the package were Ultrix and SunOS 4.1.x Drive >Geometry settings. Can I use the Ultrix disktab with a little >translation from the FreeBSD "disktab" man page? This should work. You don't need to care for anything, if you simply put a ... :su#41940480:\ :oc#0:pc#41940480:\ ... there. The `su' capability overrides the ns/nt/nc-derived one (though the latter capabilities must be there, but are effectively ignored). -- 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. ;-)