Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:34:03 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Bo Xiao <boxiao63@hotmail.com>, glenn@antimatter.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk? Message-ID: <EE0CD4174C279DEC912790E2@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <BAY103-F424EB0AE394B762FC3E4C5D8BE0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY103-F424EB0AE394B762FC3E4C5D8BE0@phx.gbl>
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--On Sunday, August 14, 2005 22:30:07 +0000 Bo Xiao <boxiao63@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Installation on another box, also with 5.4R, went well. So it must be
> this particular Dell PowerEdge 750. After moving the disk back,
>
> % sudo newfs /dev/ad3s1d
> newfs: /dev/ad3s1d: failed to open disk for writing
> % sudo mount /dev/ad3s1d /mnt/a
> mount: /dev/ad3s1d: Operation not permitted
> %
>
> But dmesg gives right info so not likely the bios.
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> ad2: 76293MB <Maxtor 6Y080M0/YAR51HW0> [155009/16/63] at ata1-master
> SATA150
> ad3: 286168MB <ST3300831AS/3.02> [581421/16/63] at ata1-slave SATA150
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a
> em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
>
What does fdisk show?
utd59514# fdisk /dev/ad4
******* Working on device /dev/ad4 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=484406 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=484406 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 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
start 63, size 204796557 (99998 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 204796620, size 283482990 (138419 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
utd59514# fdisk /dev/ad5
******* Working on device /dev/ad5 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=484406 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=484406 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 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 488279547 (238417 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 5/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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