From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 4 18: 7:16 2000 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 D6BBC151E9; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 18:07:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA57048; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:36:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:36:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joerg Micheel Cc: Mitch Collinsworth , Mike Smith , Brandon DeYoung , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <20000105123654.F30038@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> <19991226102238.G1316@freebie.lemis.com> <20000105143710.I2049@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000105143710.I2049@cs.waikato.ac.nz> 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 Wednesday, 5 January 2000 at 14:37:10 +1300, Joerg Micheel wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 10:22:39AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 24 December 1999 at 23:16:54 -0500, Mitch Collinsworth 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. >>>> >>>> There shouldn't be any issues with large drives, no. Since you don't >>>> provide any details to qualify "fail", it's hard to guess where your >>>> problems might lie. >>> >>> There's been discussion of this recently, I think on -questions. >>> Those involved seemed to agree there is a newfs barrier at around >>> 27 to 27.5 GB. Smaller works fine, larger fails. Based on that you >>> should be able to partition your 36 GB and make it usable now. IIRC >>> there is a new driver in the works that's supposed to solve the >>> problem. >> >> Correct. That's a thing I forgot to mention in my last message: we've >> tried the new ata driver with large disks and had no problems. That >> doesn't mean there are none, though: until we know what causes the >> problems, we can't be sure that they're gone. ata is standard in 4.0. > > FIW, I'm running a Seagate 50GB SCSI drive since about a month in a > 3.3-RELEASE system without problems. > > Dec 10 13:50:17 negara /kernel: da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > Dec 10 13:50:17 negara /kernel: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > Dec 10 13:50:17 negara /kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > Dec 10 13:50:17 negara /kernel: da0: 47702MB (97693755 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 6081C) Right, the problems have only occurred on IDE drives. That's why we suspect the driver. 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