The other day I asked about using a 2.0 GB disk with SunOS 4.0.3
I was looking for either a patch or information on whether partitioning
the disk into smaller partitions to get around 1.2 GB limit would work.
The answers I received fell into the following 4 categories:
1). Partitioning the disk into smaller partitions will work
--> The limitation is with the filesystem size, thus
partitioning it will solve the problem
2). Partitioning the disk into smaller partitions will not work
--> The limitation is with format not being able to read or
map out bad blocks past the 1GB limit, it wraps around
and maps out lower addressed blocks
--> limited number of address bits (24 ?) available for the
device commands. Not enough bits to format anything
over 1 GB
3). Upgrade to 4.1.X (we cannot)
4). Put the disk on another system (4.1.X) and mount via NFS
We will probably just swap this 2 GB disk with a 1 GB that's
on a 4.1.2 system and solve the problem that way, since we are not sure
whether the partitioning trick will really work or not.
Thanks to:
fallan@baobab.awadi.com.AU (Frank Allan (Network Mgr))
Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au>
plord@pioneer.uspto.gov (Paul Lord)
Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>
klarsen@hawkeye.analog.com (Kristin L. Larsen)
Curt Freeland <curt@ecn.purdue.edu>
Sid J. Stuart <sid@Think.COM>
Steve Hanson <hanson@pogo.fnal.gov>
heiser@tdwr.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
shandelm@jpmorgan.com (Joel Shandelman FIMS Information Systems - 212-648-4480)
Mike Raffety <miker@il.us.swissbank.com>
farrell@mr.med.ge.com (Brian Farrell 4-6531 MRCE)
Glenn Shaw <glenns@sa-cgy.valmet.com>
ups!upstage!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
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