On Tuesday 16 March 2004 19:07, Brian Chase wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > On Mar 15, 2004, at 9:57 PM, John Klos wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Now that I have a VAX which is local to me, I've tested whether
> > > support for partitions larger than 4 gigs is still broken. It is:
> >
> > FWIW, on NetBSD/i386 systems, I am using > 1TB file systems, and
> > everything is just great.
> >
> > What kind of drive is attached to your VAX?
>
> This has been an ongoing problem with the VAX port for sometime now.
> The problem shows up on a wide assortment of my SCSI VAXen with any
> number of larger than 4GB SCSI drives I've tried.  IIRC, this has been
> broken since at least 1.6.  Support for >4GB filesystems used to work
> fine.

Why are we having SO many problems with 1.6? I'm fairly happy on 1.5.2 - 
all the stories of things from >4gb support going, to not being able to 
build vast tracts of software on it, to bootblocks and MOP kernels 
breaking...

What on earth happened?

alex/melt