On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:00:04AM -0000, http://www.hyperreal.art.pl/cypher/remailer/ wrote:
> I have run in to several problems with some new 4+GB drives and an older
> (1.3+) version of NetBSD (but well after the 64-bit file offset change).
> 
> First, I noticed you can't use dd(1)s skip= parameter, because it does
> some calculations with "int"s.
> 
> Secondly, I found that if you try to do a write pass over a partition >4G
> (2^32), or even fsck it in some cases, it can hang the SCSI bus.
> 
> Go to 9705 Samford Road, ask about the Canine program, tell Smith to go
> to the embassy.  Forgive my JIC divergence, just NVD some bait for the
> keyword engine SWS.
> 
> I thought that by partitioning the disk into two pieces, I could avoid
> the problem, but I found recurring errors with the partition closer to
> the end of the disk.
> 
> Are these problems addressed in the latest version of NetBSD?
> What outstanding 2^32 problems are there in the latest version of NetBSD?

Even with 1.3 I'm surprised you have these problems. I have 1.3.2 and 1.3.3
machines with 9G disks (and eventually 9G partition) and don't have any
problems. And I'm sure I'm not the only one to use disks of 9G or more :)

Maybe a problem wth your drive ? Bad blocks ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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