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Date:      Thu, 09 Mar 2000 23:00:37 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Jay Oliver" <kythorn@scorched.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Having problems with a 40 gig IDE drive. 
Message-ID:  <200003100700.XAA00649@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:56:35 EST." <004301bf8a5d$c7068c70$2260e4d0@CHAOS> 

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> Having problems getting FreeBSD to play nice with a 40 gig IDE drive I
> picked up a while back.  Originally had problems with it under linux 2.2.13,
> but those were resolved as of 2.2.14.
> Currently using 3.4-STABLE
> 
> dmesg output as follows:
> 
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC22500L>
> wd0: 2441MB (4999680 sectors), 4960 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

The 'wd' driver is known to have problems with very large drives; you 
should be looking at the 'ad' driver in 4.0 for support here.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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