At 22:17 +0200 on 26/10/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote:

>>
>>The only sticking point I see with using the 7.1 kernel as a base is
>>that it doesn't support >2GB drives which might be a problem on Quadras
>>with phat hard disks (mentions no names but hums a little tune as we
>>are really on the wrong list ;) ). I am more thinking about running it
>>on 040 machines as it is wkd fast on them and there is a system enabler
>>for pretty much all of them AFIAK.
>
>7.1 can handle drives as large as you want, but it can't handle
>partitions larger than  2 gig.

16GB is the practical limit because the OS can't handle more than 8 partitions
per physical unit.
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