Thanks Rusty,

Great info!!

Keith


On 2024-09-07 10:12, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> On 9/6/24 12:55, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>> ...
>> 
>> ...I seem to recall that at some point the bigger drivers would not 
>> work well with old hardware.  I hope that is not an issue.
>> 
>> 
> The problem with 'large' drives is, as far as I remember,JUST with 
> booting - its a BIOS issue, and if you keep /boot (or equivalent) in 
> the lower <x> LBAs of the drive even an overly-large drive is ok.  
> (Once Linux has loaded into RAM you're fine with just about any drive 
> that Linux can handle, if you set up your init files (in /boot) 
> correctly (that is to say, with the drivers you need to boot from the 
> drive)).
> 
> 
> The problem is that the BIOS drivers can only access the first... Oh I 
> don't remember the number off hand, but the address register for the 
> LBA (or C/H/S!) is only so big, so BIOS drivers can only read the 
> 'lower' part of the drive.
> 
> Since your boot drive is (probably) small enough, and even if not I'm 
> guessing the entire TruNAS filesystem can be made 'small enough', but 
> I'm guessing.
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