Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:21:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@thelosingend.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 128 GiB+ disks on Intel PIIX4 Message-ID: <20041019121434.R14707@maren.thelosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <20041018125351.R24455@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20041018125351.R24455@maren.thelosingend.net>
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[Svein Halvor Halvorsen, 2004-10-18] > Is this at all possible? My BIOS don't seem to recognize my brand new 200 GB > disk, but that is nothing new. I can initialize a new slize, setup bsdlabel > and do newfs on if without problems. How can I verify that the entire disk is > usable without filling it all up (or past the 128 GiB barrier), and then > reading everything back out? Just for the sake of the completeness of the thread: The disk seems to be fully useable! I've dd'd the first 100 gigabytes full of zeroes and then filles the remaining 100 with bits from /dev/urandom. I then dd'd out the first 100 gb again and piped it trough od, just to see that it outputted 100 gb of suppressed lines identical to the first that just had zeroes in it. I didn't bother to check the entire remainder of the disk, but dd'd ot a couple of megabytes near the end of it, and saw that it was filled with appearently random bits. Appearently FreeBSD 5.x have no trouble with 137GB+ disks on 440BX chipsets :) Cheers, Svein Halvor
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