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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:44:22 +0300
From:      KOT MATPOCKuH <matpockuh@gmail.com>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trouble with drive size detection - 31MB visible size on 1TB  drive.
Message-ID:  <3979a4b0912151044i5c3031ebo41ed0cb482461ea9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B23DC8B.8020807@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <1260638581.00193503.1260625202@10.7.7.3> <4B23DC8B.8020807@FreeBSD.org>

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2009/12/12 Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>:
> To unlock drive permanently SET MAX ADDRESS ATA command should be used
> (probably the same as Linux uses) with Volatile bit set, to make it not
> restore on power cycle. I don't know how to send this command with
> legacy ata(4), you need some external tool.
Who knows this some external tool? :)
As I know hdparm is not ported to *BSD.

> With new CAM-based ATA
> probably it can be send via `camcontrol cmd ...`.
On this machine I'm using FreeBSD 7.x and have no ahci(4) support :(

I solved the problem by running "hdparm -N p1953525168 sdf" from linux
livecd, but this is not the fbsd way...

-- 
MATPOCKuH



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