Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:36:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com> Cc: Otter <otter@otter.cc>, Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large disks (34GB), mounting and newfs problems Message-ID: <20000415103634.D64727@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000414160204.A32946@area51.v-wave.com> References: <4.2.2.20000414161740.00a82a60@mail.utexas.edu> <38F7922C.B936D566@otter.cc> <20000414160204.A32946@area51.v-wave.com>
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On Friday, 14 April 2000 at 16:02:04 -0600, Chris Wasser wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:48:28PM -0400, Otter wrote: >> 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. > > I had a similar problem with a 37GB maxtor drive under 3.x and solved it > by using the b0ffb0ff flags on the wd driver, after that I was able to > newfs and mount it no problem, ie: > > controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0xb0ffb0ff > disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 > disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 > controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 flags 0xb0ffb0ff > disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 > disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 Right, that's the recommended workaround with the wd driver. Bit 12 (0x1000) in each of the halves of the flags sets LBA mode. This is probably a good idea anyway. 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-questions" in the body of the message
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