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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 1.6G drives
Date: 19 Jul 1996 08:32:08 GMT
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psonnek@skypoint.com (Patrick Sonnek) 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  is it possible 
> to partition the drive into 2 smaller file systems, and have it work?  or 
> would I be better off just finding a nice small 850M drive for my second 
> drive.

You can use any drive of any available size.  It's up to other
decisions whether you would like to partition it or not.

For IDE drives, the max size is 127 GB, if i remember correctly.
For SCSI, it's in the Terabyte region.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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