Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:22:13 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@graphics.cornell.edu>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brandon DeYoung <brandon@schoolpeople.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <20000109162213.A418@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000105113359.C68135@azazel.zer0.org>; from gsutter@pobox.com on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:33:59AM -0800 References: <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> <19991226102238.G1316@freebie.lemis.com> <20000105143710.I2049@cs.waikato.ac.nz> <20000105123654.F30038@freebie.lemis.com> <20000105113359.C68135@azazel.zer0.org>
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On Wednesday, 5 January 2000 at 11:33:59 -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:36:54PM +1030, Greg Lehey 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: >>>>>> Someone else, sometime, 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'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 >> >> Right, the problems have only occurred on IDE drives. That's why we >> suspect the driver. > > I newfs'ed a 37.5 GB IDE drive two days ago with no problems. I haven't > filled it past 27GB yet, but if the problem manifests at newfs time, > then I did not experience it. Could it be related to the way the disk > is addressed (LBA)? I've heard a report from Germany that using LBA solved the problem. Greg -- 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
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