Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:03:55 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FW: Large hard drive issues under 3.4 Message-ID: <NEBBIJCLELPGBFNNJOFHMELFCBAA.jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> In-Reply-To: <20000607122642.B73614@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:57 PM > To: Josh Paetzel > Cc: questions > Subject: Re: FW: Large hard drive issues under 3.4 > > > On Tuesday, 6 June 2000 at 21:55:33 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > > I am trying to get a 60 gig maxtor 96147UA hard drive to work > under FreeBSD > > 3.4 without much success. The mailing lists seem to have some > conflicting > > answers to people that have had similar problems with this drive. I am > > hoping that you can provide me with a correct answer to one question. :) > > > > Is it possible to use this drive under 3.4 or do I need to > upgrade to 4.0? > > I don't know. It would help if you would describe the problems you're > seeing. > Sorry about the lack of info....in the archives there have been some posts made that indicate 3.4 will not support an IDE drive (which this is) larger than 33.6 gig. It is not clear from what I can find in the archives if this is true or not. I was wondering if you knew off the top of your head whether this info was true. The problems with this drive are as follows: Under either normal or LBA FreeBSD 3.4-Release gets confused about the disk geometry. The motherboard BIOS has been flashed so it will support large drives. (before we did that the system would freeze when we plugged this thing in.) Fdisk reports strange disk geometry in all cases....sometimes the cylinder boundaries of the partitions overlap, sometimes the start of a partition is after the end, but in any case I can't get FreeBSD to recognize the geometry....which is 119108/16/64. I have had problems similar to this before with large drives (bigger than 30 gig) and have solved them by moving to 4.0. This is not possible in this situation. I wish that I could remember every way that I have tried to get this drive to work with results, but alas, I cannot. I will say that I have installed FreeBSD a lot and am pretty sure that I am not making a rookie error. Thanks for any input you might have. Josh > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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