From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 9 22:59:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles556.castles.com [208.214.165.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5481B37B914; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:59:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00649; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:00:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003100700.XAA00649@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jay Oliver" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Having problems with a 40 gig IDE drive. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:56:35 EST." <004301bf8a5d$c7068c70$2260e4d0@CHAOS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 23:00:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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): > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message