Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:45:15 +0200 From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 128 GiB+ disks on Intel PIIX4 Message-ID: <200410181445.15101.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <20041018142758.B13624@mirrorball.thelosingend.net> References: <20041018125351.R24455@maren.thelosingend.net> <200410181419.42642.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> <20041018142758.B13624@mirrorball.thelosingend.net>
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On Monday 18 October 2004 14:30, you wrote: > [Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN], 2004-10-18] > > > dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/null > > > > If it succeeds without errors, you should also be able to write the > > entire disk. > > It is not possible that the controller will rotate when it reaches its > 28bit address barrier, and that the controller will return the first part > of the disk, when asking for the last? I don't believe that is possible without the kernel complaining, but I'm not 100% sure. To be really 100% sure you'll have to fill up the disk and re-read it... grtz, Daan
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