Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:17:29 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: intrico@pacbell.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large Hard Disks Message-ID: <19991207131729.47280@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBJHGEHKFPLCHNOLINCEJACAAA.intrico@pacbell.net>; from intrico@pacbell.net on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 06:37:14AM -0800 References: <NDBBJHGEHKFPLCHNOLINCEJACAAA.intrico@pacbell.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 6 December 1999 at 6:37:14 -0800, intrico@pacbell.net wrote: > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 3.3 Stable on a Maxtor 36.5 GB > Utra DMA hard disk. I would like FreeBSD to be the sole operating > system on the disk. After going through setup, the filesystems seem > to be created okay, but as soon as it attempts to begin extracting > files to the disk, the installation quits with a "panic: ufs_dirbad: > bad dir". Is this repeatable? > My motherboard is an ASUS P2B-F with the bios upgraded to the latest > version which does support disks larger than 32 GB. This shouldn't be an issue. FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS except for booting. > I originally tried installing FreeBSD on the disk while it was new and it > failed with the panic string that I gave above. I then [Microsoft]FDISKed, > formatted with FAT32 and tried installing windows 98 alone on the disk and > it worked, then tried installing Windows NT workstation 4.0 alone on the > disk with NTFS - and it worked as well. I also tried an 8.5 GB Maxtor and > FreeBSD installed sucessfully on it. So now, I'm seeking answers to these > three questions... > > 1) Is FreeBSD incompatible with UDMA? No. > 2) Is FreeBSD itself able to handle IDE drives as large as 36.5 GB, and if > not, what is the maximum disk size that it will support? As far as I know, it can handle them. But I've heard of a few installation problems recently, which may reflect a software problem. > 3) If FreeBSD is compatible with UDMA, and is able to handle IDE disks as > large as 36.5 GB, what would most likely be causing the panic error given > above? I don't know. We're going to have to take a look. How are you partitioning your disk? How many slices (Microsoft partitions) , how many (FreeBSD) partitions? How big are they? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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