Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:48:28 -0400 From: Otter <otter@otter.cc> To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large disks (34GB), mounting and newfs problems Message-ID: <38F7922C.B936D566@otter.cc> References: <4.2.2.20000414161740.00a82a60@mail.utexas.edu>
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Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > > I was following the question of problems mounting a drive and now, I'm > having some of the same problems. This is a second drive in the system, > connected as a slave to the first IDE drive. It's an IBM Deskstar 34GXP, > DPTA-373420. I apologize for the length of the message but I did want to > demonstrate that I followed the previous suggestions and was getting the > right responses. Here's the output from /var/log/messages: > > Apr 14 16:22:16 amanda /kernel: wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > Apr 14 16:22:16 amanda /kernel: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC WD136AA> > Apr 14 16:22:16 amanda /kernel: wd0: 12971MB (26564832 sectors), 26354 > cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > Apr 14 16:22:16 amanda /kernel: wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <IBM-DPTA-373420> > Apr 14 16:22:17 amanda /kernel: wd1: 32634MB (66835440 sectors), 66305 > cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > I issued the command "fdisk wd1" and received the following: > > amanda# fdisk wd1 > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd1 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=66305 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=66305 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 0, size 66835440 (32634 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15 > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > <UNUSED> > > I then issued the command "disklabel wd1s1" and received the following: > > amanda# disklabel wd1s1 > # /dev/rwd1s1c: > type: ESDI > disk: wd1s1 > label: > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 16 > sectors/cylinder: 1008 > cylinders: 66305 > sectors/unit: 66835440 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds > drivedata: 0 > > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 66835440 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 66304) > > OK, so far so good. I can then mount the drive without any problems: > > amanda# mount /dev/wd1s1c /dump > > which returns without any errors. > > Here's the big problem, I try to run "newfs" with the following command, > and when I get to the same block each time, 66781216, the machine reboots > itself. Here's the output from the command: > > amanda# newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/wd1s1c > newfs: /dev/wd1s1c: not a character-special device > Warning: 3088 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated > /dev/wd1s1c: 66835440 sectors in 16318 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 32634.5MB in 1020 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7936 i/g) > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 32, 65568, 131104, 196640, 262176, 327712, 393248, 458784, 524320, 589856, > ... > 65601568, 65667104, 65732640, 65798176, 65863712, 65929248, 65994784, > 66060320, > 66125856, 66191392, 66256928, 66322464, 66388000, 66453536, 66519072, > 66584608, > 66650144, 66715680, 66781216, > > If anybody has any information or pointers on where I can find the > solution, I would VERY much appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > Oscar > IIRC, there was a bug in the wd driver that made it hiccup on disks >27GB. If you're running under 3.x or 4.0, try upgrading to the ata (ad) driver for a fix. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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