Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:38:39 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, admin@delanet.com Subject: Re: Trouble with 40gig ide drives Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000418093207.00a776e0@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <38FC7106.91F9006B@delanet.com>
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Do you actually have the file "/dev/wd0s1e"? If not, you should use "/dev/MAKEDEV wd0s1e" to create it. I just had sort of similar (if that actually makes any sense) problems with a 34GB drive. There was a thread a few days ago about having problems mounting a drive. See if you still have those messages, or search through the archives for them as they make prove useful. The subject of those messages was: "I'm at a loss for a way to mount this second ..." In response to my question with the problems I was having, I also received this useful reply from Chris Wasser (cwasser@v-wave.com): ***** I had a similar problem with a 37GB maxtor drive under 3.x and solved it by using the b0ffb0ff flags on the wd driver, after that I was able to newfs and mount it no problem, ie: controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0xb0ffb0ff disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 flags 0xb0ffb0ff disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 ***** and then this follow-up from Greg Lehey: ***** Right, that's the recommended workaround with the wd driver. Bit 12 (0x1000) in each of the halves of the flags sets LBA mode. This is probably a good idea anyway. ***** HTH. Oscar At 10:28 AM 4/18/00 -0400, Delanet Administration, you wrote: >I'm having a little trouble getting FreeBSD 3.4 stable to use a 40gig >maxtor HD. > >boot message shows: >Apr 18 04:50:34 wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa >Apr 18 04:50:34 mysql /kernel: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 94098U8> >Apr 18 04:50:34 mysql /kernel: wd0: 39082MB (80041248 sectors), 79406 >cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > >Fdisk from sysinstall shows: >4982 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 80035830 sectors > >Label from sysinstall shows: >Disk: wd0 Partition name: wd0s1 Free: 80035767 blocks (39079MB) > >newfs works fine, however the drive fails to mount with the following: >Error mounting /dev/wd0s1e on /ide : Invalid argument > >console shows the error message of 'Unknown major/minor for devtype' > >I know the drive works on the hardware as I have an identical machine >running NT where I took the drive from. Bios does report the >size/geometry incorrectly. Seems the bios has a max limit of 65535 for >cylinders and 16 heads however from the little I found in the archives I >was under the impression BSD got the geometry from the drive itself and >ignored the bios? > >Any help would be appreciated. Please cc me in replies as I'm no longer >on the list. > >Regards, > >-- >Stephen Comoletti >Systems Administrator >Delanet, Inc. http://www.delanet.com >ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802 > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message "Don't believe the hype" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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