Re: Server upgrade - 128G disk limit!

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Nov 27, 2010, at 7:51 PM, John Klos wrote:

> > I bought 2 160G drives, and 1 320G drive, and when I started  
> > working with
> > them realized that the G4 has a 128G limit on drives, because the  
> > on-board
> > controller does not support LBA48.  (Bummer!) (G4 AGP graphics)
>
> To be clear, the controller does, but the drivers available to OF  
> don't. Just put ofwboot.xcf and the boot kernel into an HFS  
> partition at the beginning of the disk and you'll be fine - as  
> NetBSD boots, it'll load its own driver and will see the full size  
> of the drives.

It's not even necessary to put the kernel on a HFS partition as long  
as it's below 128GB.

have fun
Michael

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