Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost ("Thomas Mueller") writes:

>Can NetBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard drive 
>> 2 TB?  Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive firmware can 
>make sector size look like 512 bytes.  I know fdisk can handle up to 2 TB; 
>this limit is not just for BSD but Linux too.

>Western Digital has come out with a SATA hard drive of 3 TB.

-current can. However, your PC probably has problems to boot from
such a drive.

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