Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:35 GMT From: "Brett E. Wynkoop" <wynkoop@wynn.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Fwd: Re: misc/166673: sade will not properly format 2TB disk (maybe other sizes as well) Message-ID: <201204051700.q35H0Zgg080006@freefall.freebsd.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The following reply was made to PR misc/166673; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Brett E. Wynkoop" <wynkoop@wynn.com> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, wynkoop@wynn.com Cc: Subject: Fwd: Re: misc/166673: sade will not properly format 2TB disk (maybe other sizes as well) Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:54:47 -0400 (EDT) Greeting- Just attaching the comments by JKH to the PR. -Brett On 05/Apr/2012 12:42 Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh --AT-- freebsd.org> wrote .. > Hi Brett, > > Yep, everything at Apple is going swimmingly (I see AAPL just hit $631 today - > no complaints! ;-) ). I don't know much about sade, I'm afraid, the credit you > see apparently due to the fact that they took the code out of sysinstall (and, > now that I look at sade, I see that it does indeed appear to be pretty much the > very same code). Given that, I would suspect one of two problems: > > 1. Your geometry is not in fact correct. You might try the suggested geometry, > or inspect the geometry under another OS (simply boot Linux or Windows off a thumb > drive and see how they report the drive geometry for a "2nd opinion") and try plugging > those numbers into sade, e.g. hit the "G" key in the Partition editor and manually > change them. > > 2. You're hitting a bug in libdisk, which sade uses, possibly a 32 bit overflow > because they didn't have 2Tb disks when phk and I wrote the original code. :) > > - Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- email: wynkoop@wynn.com Phone: 917-642-6925
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201204051700.q35H0Zgg080006>