From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 02:40:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459D216A41F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 02:40:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from materribile@yahoo.com) Received: from web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05E4843D58 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 02:40:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from materribile@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 35835 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Aug 2005 02:40:31 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=F5Fkki77SQfYxKoyRcLokSSyiEIyCKYT3vpymOpMiuBEKu3Q325MNJeKv25jLXsJ2C/eenydCis+voAV7TlHJLvK6TZ65a1tpO8VuUm0sm9FzoCRN/KbS8bg5xVfnyBZnm5Tcz4k8OJ6/qLsCV8odmMO4fN1e4Dk0bFW0aVB50A= ; Message-ID: <20050802024031.35833.qmail@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.228.74.10] by web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:40:31 PDT Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:40:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Terribile To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: ATA over 127 GByte on FBSD 4.8 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:40:33 -0000 ===I recently replaced smaller drives with a 160G and 250G drives (IDE). They were on the Gigabyte motherboard's SiS 963 chipset. I discovered that attempts to access anything above 127G resulted in errors: pg root:root# dd if=/dev/ad6 of=/dev/null bs=2k skip=51200000 dd: /dev/ad6: Input/output error 1261767+0 records in 1261767+0 records out 2584098816 bytes transferred in 795.559900 secs (3248151 bytes/sec) pg root:root# ===and (from the console and /var/log/messages) Aug 1 21:58:09 moleend /kernel: ad6: hard error reading fsbn 419694136 of 20984 7068-209847071 (ad6 bn 419694136; cn 26124 tn 191 sn 43) status=59 error=40 ===On the assumption that the problem was in the controller, I purchased a Promise Ultra 133 TX2; the result was the same. ===I'm on 4.8, and I'd prefer to have these disks working BEFORE any upgrade. If the upgrade must be to 5.X, then I really^3 want to have these disks working first. (They're not my primary drives; I use them for rotating backup and large projects. My primary drives are nice, well-behaved, >expensive< SCSI drives.) ===Here's my current IDE configuration: pd root:root# ntrol cap 2 0 ; atacontrol cap 3 0 < ATA channel 0: Master: acd0 ATA/ATAPI rev 0 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: ad2 ATA/ATAPI rev 6 Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 ATA/ATAPI rev 7 Slave: no device present ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 ATA/ATAPI rev 7 Slave: no device present ATA channel 0, Master, device acd0: ATA/ATAPI revision 0 device model CDU5211 serial number firmware revision YYS7 cylinders 0 heads 0 sectors/track 0 lba supported lba48 not supported dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support Enable Value Vendor write cache no no read ahead no no dma queued no no 0/00 SMART no no microcode download no no security no no power management no no advanced power management no no 0/00 automatic acoustic management no no 0/00 0/00 ATA channel 1, Master, device ad2: ATA/ATAPI revision 6 device model IC35L120AVV207-1 serial number VNVD07G4GV0RWL firmware revision V24OA66A cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 241254720 sectors lba48 supported 241254720 sectors dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support Enable Value Vendor write cache yes yes read ahead yes yes dma queued yes yes 31/1F SMART yes no microcode download no no security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management yes no 0/00 automatic acoustic management yes no 254/FE 128/80 ATA channel 2, Master, device ad4: ATA/ATAPI revision 7 device model ST3250823A serial number 5ND00CEX firmware revision 3.02 cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 268435455 sectors lba48 supported 488397168 sectors dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support Enable Value Vendor write cache yes yes read ahead yes yes dma queued no no 0/00 SMART yes no microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management no no 65278/FEFE automatic acoustic management no no 0/00 128/80 ATA channel 3, Master, device ad6: ATA/ATAPI revision 7 device model Maxtor 6Y160P0 serial number Y45EWX8E firmware revision YAR41BW0 cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 268435455 sectors lba48 supported 320173056 sectors dma supported overlap not supported Feature Support Enable Value Vendor write cache yes yes read ahead yes yes dma queued no no 0/00 SMART yes no microcode download yes yes security yes no power management yes yes advanced power management yes no 0/00 automatic acoustic management yes yes 254/FE 192/C0 pd root:root# ===Here are the ATA variables I know about: p8 root:root# cat /boot/loader.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # userconfig_script_load="YES" linux_load="YES" nvidia_load="YES" agp_load="YES" # DMA on the mainboard IDE controller isn't working with the ata driver ... hw.ata.ata_dma=0 p8 root:root# sysctl -A | egrep -i ata kern.ipc.max_datalen: 136 hw.ata.ata_dma: 0 hw.ata.wc: 1 hw.ata.tags: 0 hw.ata.atapi_dma: 0 ===From the configuration file for the most recent kernel: # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering ===What must I upgrade, and how far, to use these disks on this hardware? Thanks for your help. Mark Terribile materribile@yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs