Hi,

> YIKES, THAT IS SCARY.

Please don't yell! The only people who might have an excuse are people
using Sinclair ZX81s / TS-1000 computers without lower case...

> I HAVE BEEN AN RUNNING AN OLD COMPAQ 266 WITH  A CHEAP 60GB MAXTOR DRIVE
> FOR A SOME TIME ON NETBSD 1.6 WITH  NO ISSUES.

There are no issues with other architectures; just VAX. I have two 120 gig
drives in my Amiga, for instance.

> CAN ANYONE CONFIRM THIS NETBSD LARGE DISK ISSUE?
>
> IT IS A VAXEN ISSUE ONLY?
> IT IS AN URBAN LEGEND?

VAX issue only. Although some other architectures are limited about the
size of the partition which is used for booting.

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs