Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:17:46 -0700 From: "Don O'Neil" <doneil@amplespace.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "John Paul Lonie" <jplonie@optushome.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Large Hard drives > 45GB Message-ID: <MOBBIPGJKBNNPGLGMFHFCEAAELAA.doneil@amplespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20000820104457.B4230@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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I had a similar problem with the same IBM drive when I tried to install 3.5.1. It simply would not let me define the slices. I gave up and had no problem w/ 4.1. I've also used the 3Ware RAID card to make a volume >180GB using 4 of these drives with no problems. I suggest using 4.1. Don > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg Lehey > Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 6:15 PM > To: John Paul Lonie > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Large Hard drives > 45GB > > > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 > > On Saturday, 19 August 2000 at 17:33:48 +1000, John Paul Lonie wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Can some one tell me the current state of large IDE HD's under > > FreeBSD 3.5 and 4.x I have a nice new IBM 45 GB hard drive and it > > doesn't want to play ball under 3.5 ... > > 4.x has a new IDE driver, which doesn't have any documented problems > with large drives. > > > I have split it up to 3 partitions, ( 20, 20, 5 ) and I can > > mkfs all of the fine . and mount them too ... but a cd to the first > > partition causes the error listed below.. > > > > su-2.03# uname -a > > FreeBSD babylon5.lonie.dropbear.id.au 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD > 3.5-STABLE #7: Tue > > Aug 15 23:14:26 EST 2000 > > root@babylon5.lonie.dropbear.id.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/BABYLON i386 > > > > bash-2.03$ df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/wd2s1e 19849974 1 18261976 0% /mnt/a > > /dev/wd2s1f 19849974 1 18261976 0% /mnt/b > > /dev/wd2s1g 3944145 1 3628613 0% /mnt/c > > > > bash-2.03$ cd /mnt/a > > bash: cd: /mnt/a: Not a directory > > Is this the error you're implying? It would be nice to know whether > you had any problems with newfs or mount. Are there any files on it? > What other history? How does your treatment of this partition compare > to that of partitions f or g? > > > bash-2.03$ fdisk /dev/wd2 > > ******* Working on device /dev/wd2 ******* > > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > > cylinders=5606 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > > cylinders=5606 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 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 63, size 90060327 (43974 Meg), flag 80 (active) > > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 > > The data for partition 2 is: > > <UNUSED> > > The data for partition 3 is: > > <UNUSED> > > The data for partition 4 is: > > <UNUSED> > > > > su-2.03# disklabel -r wd2 > > 8 partitions: > > Please don't wrap these lines. > > > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > > c: 90060327 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. > 0 - 5605*) > > e: 40960000 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. > 0 - 2549*) > > f: 40960000 40960000 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. > 2549*- 5099*) > > g: 8140327 81920000 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. > 5099*- 5605*) > > There's nothing particularly surprising about the disk label. It > might be yet another "big drive" problem with the wd driver. I'd hope > that the ad driver would do better. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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