From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 27 17:17:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02554 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:17:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from webchat2.wbs.net (ws3.wbs.net [207.88.172.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02515; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@wbs.net) Received: (from bob@localhost) by webchat2.wbs.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id RAA29630; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:17:05 -0800 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:17:04 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Lash To: Søren Schmidt cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB In-Reply-To: <199803272116.WAA15703@sos.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA02516 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Bob Lash who wrote: > > I put three 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE drives on my freeBSD 2.2.5 > > machine, and BIOS correctly identifies the drives as 12 GB, but freeBSD > > thinks they are only 8.4 GB: -SNIP- > > Have you tried it with the BIOS in CHS mode ?? > Yes, we tried using CHS, LBA, and LARGE modes... all of them showed as 12 GIG under BIOS, but only 8.4 under freeBSD. Interestingly, when in CHS mode, BIOS shows: 23361 CYL / 16 HD / 63 SEC and freeBSD sees: 16383 CYL / 16 HD / 63 SEC > > Is freeBSD actually limited to 8.4 GIGs per IDE drive? > > ===================================================== > > No it shouldn't be.. Excellent... > Send me one, and I'll make it work :) If we have to put more of these boxes together, I will definately recommend it to the other folks involved in my project! :) :) Best wishes, Bob Lash bob@wbs.net > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end > .. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message