FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400

[Bernd Walter]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:51:03AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2004-May-19 18:05:23 +0200, Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely12.cicely.de> wrote:
> >AFAIK the 960 can't handle drives with sizes greater than 8G and
> >some firmware revisions even with drives >2G, but I'm not shure with it.
> >Have this drives ever been in use with this controller?
> 
> We have a significant number of KZPAC (Mylex DAC960) controllers in use
> and looked into this issue a few years ago.
> 
> I haven't seen any references to a 2GB limit.  DEC/Compaq/HP state
> that the maximum drive size is 9.1GB.  We have experimented with
> JBOD volumes using larger disks (18GB and 36GB) - which seem to work
> successfully.  Note that block addresses wrap around at 32GB - the
> configuration utility recognizes that the 36GB disk has 36GB but
> wraps the top 4GB over the bottom 4GB - which is undesirable.

I mixed something up - it seems to be the boot partition limitation on
x86 BIOS.
Alpha boot support is different of course.

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