Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:59:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Clive Lin <clive@tongi.org> Cc: Andrew Snow <als@kanji.com.au> Subject: Re: ibm x345 w/ serveraid-5i + freebsd ips driver dramas Message-ID: <20030921215914.O37429@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20030921130539.GA64930@fatpipi.cirx.org> References: <3F64E50E.2040608@kanji.com.au> <20030921130539.GA64930@fatpipi.cirx.org>
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Clive Lin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:00:46AM +1000, Andrew Snow wrote: > > Problem 2: (the biggest problem) > > > > While the drive size is reported correctly, the geometry is wrong... > > 472 cyls/254 heads/63 sectors = 7552944 sectors (3687MB) ?! > > > > When setting the BIOS to "non-extended" (2GB max) support mode, freebsd > > then thinks this is the geometry: > > 1846 cyls/128 heads/32 sectors = 7561216 sectors (3692MB). > > > > So I tested a few alternate geometries instead and even though there > > were no error messages, it seemed to get reset to what FreeBSD was > > reporting, no matter how many ways I tried to use the fdisk utility. > > Hi, > > I have a quick fix for this problem. > > --- sys/dev/ips/ips_disk.c~~ Sun Sep 21 19:04:44 2003 > +++ sys/dev/ips/ips_disk.c Sun Sep 21 20:29:18 2003 > @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ > dsc->ipsd_disk.d_fwsectors = IPS_COMP_SECTORS; > } > dsc->ipsd_disk.d_sectorsize = IPS_BLKSIZE; > - dsc->ipsd_disk.d_mediasize = totalsectors * IPS_BLKSIZE; > + dsc->ipsd_disk.d_mediasize = (long long) totalsectors * IPS_BLKSIZE; > disk_create(dsc->unit, &dsc->ipsd_disk, 0, NULL, NULL); > > device_printf(dev, "Logical Drive (%dMB)\n", > > The (long long) casting might not be suitable on other > platform. It works for me on a dual XEON x225 box, which has a > ServeRAID 5i. Committed as off_t, thanks. -Nate
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