From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 12 18:36:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA12991 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:36:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12981 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id NAA16781 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:06:00 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702130236.NAA16781@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: _big_ IDE disks? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:06:00 +1030 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, those of you that follow -hardware will know that I've been forced to buy IDE disks for a couple of systems that I would much rather have gone SCSI for. No turning back now. These are the 5GB Maxtor 'DiamondMax' disks we're talking about here, talking to a Tekram P5H30WS motherboard (current Award BIOS). The problem set looks something like this : - during probe, the disk is reported thus : a8tor 85120 A8 ->: < wd0: 633MB (9685824 sectors), 9224 cylinders, 16 heads, 61 S/T, 512 B/S Yes, that's garbage in the probe message. The sizing is a shade screwed too. The geometry is one that I put onto the disk forcibly using the FreeBSD installer, but _not_ that configured into the BIOS. - While installing, the installer seems to write the partition table OK, but can't write the label or swap on the disk. Briefly, has anyone done anything with one of these disks before? I get the impression I'm walking in unknown territory here 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[