Subject: Re: big drives on an SS5
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/04/2002 00:47:21
In message <20020304051516.GE7107@widomaker.com>, Charles Shannon Hendrix write
>Anyone have any experience with these machines and 18 or 36 GB drives?
I am using an internal 18GB with no problems.
>Will I gain any benefit by using another SCSI controller for the new drives,
>or will it really matter?
If it's a faster controller, I think it will.
>The only document I could find mentioning a limit on hard drive size
>said it was 4.5GB, which my 9GB drives obviously demonstrate is wrong.
It's probably long-obsolete; documentation tends to be.
From my SS5 (internal drives only):
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 127266 23273 97629 19% /
/dev/sd0d 1015873 3303 961776 0% /var
/dev/sd0g 2977171 142070 2686242 5% /usr
/dev/sd0e 4065313 1373785 2488262 35% /usr/src
/dev/sd1h 17370915 213556 16288813 1% /home
kernfs 1 1 0 100% /kern
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
-s