John Klos wrote:

>Hi,
>
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>>what is the largest disk i can put in a vaxstation 4000/90?  are there any
>>boot drive size considerations as well?
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>
>(PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong!)
>
>At the moment, NetBSD has problems with partitions larger than 4 gigs.
>This used to not be the case, but somewhere along the line something got
>changed and partitions larger than 4 gigs will become corrupt.
>
>I spent many, many hours trying to figure out what was causing corruption
>on my 9 gig disk. When I finally tried out smaller partitions, the
>corruption stopped. This was the same disk I used for many bulk builds
>with 1.5.x with many months of uptime; the only thing that changed before
>the corruption began was an update to a newer version of 1.5.x.
>
>I haven't heard that it's been fixed, but I'd love to hear that it was.
>
>Boot? Someone else will have to let you know about whether the 4000/90 has
>issues with the size / location of the boot slice.
>
>John Klos
>Sixgirls Computing Labs
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YIKES, THAT IS SCARY.

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.

THE MACHINE IS AN INTERNAL EMAIL SERVER, REMOTE BOOT SERVER FOR VAXEN 
AND DECSTATION, AND AN AUDIO JAMS ENCODER/SERVER. I USE ABOUT 45MG AT 
THE MOMENT AND IT GETS HEAVY ACTIVITY DUE TO THE AUDIO ENCODING AND 
ARCHIVING.

CAN ANYONE CONFIRM THIS NETBSD LARGE DISK ISSUE?

IT IS A VAXEN ISSUE ONLY?

IT IS AN URBAN LEGEND?

CHEERS
JOE