Re: Disks larger than 4 Gb

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 01:39:02PM +0200, Kjell Irgens wrote:
> Does NetBSD/Amiga work with disks larger than 4 GB?  I am having problems

certainly.

4 GB * 512 should work fine, with the Berkeley FFS.

> running newfs on partitions under NetBSD on my new 6.X GB Quantum drive.  
> Small
> 300 MB partitions works fine, but when I try to format a large partition of
> 1 or 2 GB, I get something like "Cylinder group 1 is full" (not that exactly,
> I will check it up if that is of any help), and if I try to mount the
> partition, doing an ls there just tells me it is corrupt.

Uh... the cylinder size is not relevant for addressing in the Berkeley ffs, but
for parametrizing tables. Try changing the cylinder per group value (-c), the
default is 16, making it bigger might help. Or, maybe, making it smaller.

Regards,
        -is