From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 25 15:51: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC14214E6C for ; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 15:50:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA36141; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 10:21:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 10:21:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Eric Kozowski Cc: marc rassbach , Brandon DeYoung , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <19991226102111.F1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000801bf4db2$18798dc0$333c5d18@austin.rr.com> <19991224213939.A15752@schooner.svjava.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991224213939.A15752@schooner.svjava.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 24 December 1999 at 21:39:40 -0800, Eric Kozowski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:19:12PM -0600, marc rassbach wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Brandon DeYoung wrote: >>> Are hard drives larger than 32 GB supported by Free BSD. I've had >>> both the 3.3 and 3.4 releases fail during the make New FS portion >>> of the install, when installing on a Maxtor 36 GB drive. >> >> This seems to be a hardware problem. If you go to maxtor's site >> http://www.maxtor.com/technology/infobulls/13027.html >> they mention how older BIOSes are non-functional. > > i ran into the same problem w/ a maxtor 36gb ide drive under > 3.4-stable. i upgraded my bios per maxtor's instructions, but it > still wouldn't format. I don't know how you can determine that this is the "same problem". There are almost no details of what happened. The BIOS upgrade wouldn't make any difference, since FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS. I'm currently investigating some reported problems in this area. Specifically, ufs file systems of 27.5 GB and up have been reported to fail to create file systems. On one occasion, newfs reported that the file system was read only. In another case, the newfs completed, but the system paniced writing to the file system. It would be nice to know what *really* happened to each of you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message