Subject: Re: Adding a disk to BSD....
To: Greg <raisplin@rcn.com>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/26/2000 18:29:23
Greg wrote:

>on 05/26/2000 5:27 PM, David Brownlee at abs@netbsd.org is rumored to have
>said:
>
>> The macos interface cannot understand free space of >2GB. You
>> can still fill the 9GB partition as normal.
>
>David,
>
>Is this the netatalk you are talking about or regular MacOS?  Because I have
>a 13 Gig Firewire Drive connected to the box I am mounting the netatalk
>share from and it sees all 13 gigs without problem, I also access other
>Appleshare Drives on other servers (MacOS based) that are much larger than 2
>gigs....

I believe it's a limitation in MacOS.  I have a Mac running System 8.6 
with a 20Gig drive. When it's marked as shared it shows up as a 1.99Gig 
drive to another Mac running System 9.0.4.  I see the same "problems" 
when mounting NetAtalk shared drives under MacOS.

-bob