Large drive support (IDE/SCSI)

[Robert Mooney <rmooney@iss.net>]

I got no response from misc@, maybe someone here knows the answer. :)

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:06:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Mooney <rmooney@iss.net>
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Large drive support (IDE/SCSI)


I realize similar questions have been asked on the list, but to clarify
(and maybe for the sake of the FAQ):

-  What's the largest IDE hard drive capacity OpenBSD can handle? 

     I understand there is a limit of ~ 33gig or so with most current
     BIOSes (I grabbed this info from a URL posted previously to the list:
     http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/docs/howto/mini/Large-Disk).

     However, not too long ago someone posted about having trouble with a
     20-some-odd gig drive.

-  What's the largest SCSI hard drive capacity OpenBSD can handle? 

     Would I be able to use a 50gig SCSI drive with OpenBSD?  Under SPARC
     and i386?

-  Finally, are there any special drive parameters that should be used
   when setting up a large disk under OpenBSD?

Thanks in advance,

- Rob