Re: Large drive support (IDE/SCSI)

[Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@appli.se>]

> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:11:55 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Robert Mooney <rmooney@iss.net>
> 
> -  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.

I have no idea of the BIOS issues one can meet, but I have installed
27 GB IDE disks with no problem.

> -  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?

50 GB poses no problems (although I have not heard about anyone tried
a 50GB drive on sparc, but I doubt anything MD would hurt here).

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

No

Niklas