Re: Disk sizes

2023-12-28 Thread xuser
Thank you, it works xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, Paul Goyette wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, xuser wrote: I have a 2018 disk and it does not work it says invalid mbr size IIRC, mbr-formatted disks are limited to 2TB. For larger, I think

Re: Disk sizes

2023-12-28 Thread Paul Goyette
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, xuser wrote: I have a 2018 disk and it does not work it says invalid mbr size IIRC, mbr-formatted disks are limited to 2TB. For larger, I think you need to use gpt and wedges. xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, David

Re: Disk sizes

2023-12-28 Thread xuser
I have a 2018 disk and it does not work it says invalid mbr size xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, David Brownlee wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 18:47, xuser wrote: Does NetBSD support 3TB ATA drive? Some very old (decade plus) controllers

Re: Disk sizes

2023-12-28 Thread David Brownlee
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 18:47, xuser wrote: > > Does NetBSD support 3TB ATA drive? Some very old (decade plus) controllers are not able to support drives of that size, but any hardware that supports a 3TB ATA drive, NetBSD should also support it. If you're using somewhat older 3TB drives be aware

Disk sizes

2023-12-28 Thread xuser
Does NetBSD support 3TB ATA drive? xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

Re: Latest amd64 snapshot has problems with disk sizes

2015-12-11 Thread Michael van Elst
g...@gson.org (Andreas Gustafsson) writes: >FWIW, the automated sysinst installs of NetBSD/sparc on >babylon5.netbsd.org were failing with "newfs: size ... exceeds >maximum file system size on `/dev/rsd0a' of ... sectors" from CVS >source date 2015.12.04.23.54.06 until 2015.12.08.01.57.13:

Re: Latest amd64 snapshot has problems with disk sizes

2015-12-10 Thread Dave Tyson
This problem disappeared when a later snapshot was tried. The nightly build 201512080650Z installed perfectly so I suspect the original was corrupt or the build ran during some updates which left parts inconsistent. Dave -- = Phone: 07805784357 Open

Latest amd64 snapshot has problems with disk sizes

2015-12-07 Thread Dave Tyson
Just tried to install current using the latest AMD64 snapshot 201512071640Z on a blank SATA drive. Boots up off the memory stick OK and after allocating partitions it fails when trying to newfs the first partition rwd0a. An error: ioctl DIOCGMEDIASIZE failed 19 appears in the log messages