> From: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@vortex.leg.ufrj.br>
> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:52:34 -0300 (WDT)
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> After having had an enormous number of problems with the disk, some
> people told me that a Sun3 most probably would never be able to
> recognize a 2Gb disk, as it is too big for its interface to handle.
> 
> Is this statement true?
> 
> Regards.
> 	Pappires

I don't believe NetBSD has any such limitation.
(though I don't have anything that large)

The PROM will need to boot using only 24-bit block numbers,
so on a disk with more than 2**24 blocks the root partition
will need to be near the beginning of the disk (no problem).

Gordon