Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 04:29:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Waite <brad@ssbaptist.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems installing on 40GB IDE Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005180259450.4284-100000@hobbes>
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Hi all, I've been running 3.4 just fine on my Tyan Trinity ATX (64M RAM, SCSI HD) for several months now. Our external SCSI raid chose to puke on us, so we decided to do a fresh install of 4.0 on a couple 40G Maxtor IDEs and use vinum RAID-5 to replace our external SCSI set up. The problem is our install always hangs during the newfs. I dangerously dedicated the primary disk to FBSD, and set up a 3652M / partition and a 256M swap. During the newfs, the DEBUG screen shows the following: DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem. DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap filesystem. DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for dev type - DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for dev type - /dev/rad0s1a: 7479296 sectors in 1826 cylinders of 1 trtacks, 4096 sectors 3652.0MB in 115 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7936 i/g) super block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, 65568, 131104,ad0: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 197056 retrying I've tried several different BIOS configurations, and every time the newfs hangs, although at different blk#'s. I think it might be a BIOS problem, even though we've got the latest published version, but I'd like to know for sure the correct way to set this up. The Award auto-detect gives these options: Size C H S Mode 40981M 19617 16 255 Normal 40980M 4982 255 63 LBA The GENERIC kernel off the CD reports: 79406/16/63 at ata0-master using UDMA66. The BIOS won't take these settings, and fdisk says it's an invalid geometry and sets it to something else. When I tell it to use the entire disk entirely for FBSD, the geometry then changes to the same as the BIOS's LBA mode. And to top all of that off, the physical drive itself says it is 16383/16/63, which obviously doesn't give 40 gigs. There is a cylinder limitation jumper on the drive, but the docs, sparse as they are, say that the drive must be prepared using their MaxBlast warez. I'm sure MaxBlast won't work with FBSD, so I'm doubtful the jumper would have any affect. Ideas? What's the correct way to set up the BIOS/FBSD for large drives? TIA, Brad Waite To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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