At 11:40 AM 2/06/2004 -0300, you wrote:

>Hi all
>My 4gb gdb never works on XP (NTFS), on different instalations and
>hardware with FB 1.0/1.5. The same DB on the same pc on the same HD on
>W2003 server has no problem. (I have 3 partitions, XP, 2003 and user data
>(.gdb) on NTFS)
>When connect to DB on XP, the fbserver.exe proccess do a i/o write
>operation that seems to "copy" the 4gb (of course, this take about 5 min).
>So, every time you open some app that connects to DB, the process begins
>to work very hard on HD.
>I must use 2003 only for this reason !
>Somebody has a working >2Gb FB DB on XP that does not copy on every connect?
>Any help?

1. Rename the database so it does not have a ".gdb" extension.
2. READ THE RELEASE NOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (You can download a version in
Spanish through the Downloads section of http://www.firebirdsql.org )

/heLen