Subject: Disk size limit...
To: None <port-sun3@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/03/2001 01:23:59
Hello Mouse,
dM> I imagine you could even do one of those washing-
> machine removable-pack drives...if you have enough
> duct tape. :-)
Don't tempt me! ;-)
dM> ...NetBSD doesn't seem to have any except the 2TB
> limit implicit in using 32-bit block numbers to
> address 512-byte blocks.
Excellent news, and it's good to just where the wall is that
we're hurtling towards ;-)
dM> Depending on your ROM rev, accesses to the disk done
> before NetBSD takes over may have to be in the first
> 1G of the disk.
Sounds comfortable. Thanks for the information.
Regards,
- Andy Ball.