On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Hauke Fath wrote:
> after a busy weekend I am pretty positive that my trouble with the shiny
> new DCAS 4G disk is somewhat related to partitioning/disklabel stuff.

> So, what are others' experiences with big disks ( >1/2GB) and NetBSD/mac68k?

I've had disklabel panic the kernel before (around NetBSD 1.2[D-G] or
so), but I haven't seen any problems at all recently...

I don't have very many partitions though.

System is a Centris 660av:

esp0 at obio0: address 0x89d000: NCR53C96, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL540S, 1Q09> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 520MB, 3835 cyl, 2 head, 138 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1065235 sectors
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <IBM, DFHSS2F, 4141> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 2150MB, 4390 cyl, 8 head, 125 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4404489 sectors
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <SONY, CD-ROM CDU-8003A, 1.9a> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable

disklabel sd1 shows:
[ ... ]
7 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    40960      144      4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0*- 41*)
  b:   147456    41104        swap                        # (Cyl.   41*- 188*)
  c:  4404489        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 4404*)
  d:  2118781  2285708         HFS                        # (Cyl. 2285*- 4404*)
  g:  2097148   188560      4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  188*- 2285*)
disklabel: boot block size 0
disklabel: super block size 0

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