Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:33:59 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@graphics.cornell.edu>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brandon DeYoung <brandon@schoolpeople.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <20000105113359.C68135@azazel.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <20000105123654.F30038@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:36:54PM %2B1030 References: <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> <19991226102238.G1316@freebie.lemis.com> <20000105143710.I2049@cs.waikato.ac.nz> <20000105123654.F30038@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:36:54PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 10:22:39AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Friday, 24 December 1999 at 23:16:54 -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: >>>>> Someone else, sometime, wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Are hard drives larger than 32 GB supported by Free BSD. I've had both = >>>>>> the 3.3 and 3.4 releases fail during the make New FS portion of the = >>>>>> install, when installing on a Maxtor 36 GB drive. >>>> >>>> There's been discussion of this recently, I think on -questions. >>>> Those involved seemed to agree there is a newfs barrier at around >>>> 27 to 27.5 GB. Smaller works fine, larger fails. Based on that you >>>> should be able to partition your 36 GB and make it usable now. IIRC >>>> there is a new driver in the works that's supposed to solve the >>>> problem. >>> >>> Correct. That's a thing I forgot to mention in my last message: we've >>> tried the new ata driver with large disks and had no problems. That > > Right, the problems have only occurred on IDE drives. That's why we > suspect the driver. I newfs'ed a 37.5 GB IDE drive two days ago with no problems. I haven't filled it past 27GB yet, but if the problem manifests at newfs time, then I did not experience it. Could it be related to the way the disk is addressed (LBA)? edge root ~ $ uname -a FreeBSD edge.foobar.com 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #7: Sat Nov 27 16:04:34 PST 1999 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/EDGE i386 edge root ~ $ dmesg | grep wd3 wdc1: unit 1 (wd3): <IBM-DPTA-353750>, LBA, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd3: 35772MB (73261440 sectors), 4560 cyls, 255 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S edge root ~ $ df | grep wd3 /dev/wd3s1e 35503742 15241732 17421711 47% /mp3 Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter The measure of a man is the way mailto:gsutter@pobox.com he bears up under misfortune. http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ --Plutarch PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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