Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 23:24:22 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mark Terribile <materribile@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA over 127 GByte on FBSD 4.8 ? Message-ID: <20050802032422.GA73883@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050802024031.35833.qmail@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050802024031.35833.qmail@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 07:40:31PM -0700, Mark Terribile wrote: >=20 > =3D=3D=3DI recently replaced smaller drives with a 160G and 250G drives (= IDE). > They were on the Gigabyte motherboard's SiS 963 chipset. I discovered th= at > attempts to access anything above 127G resulted in errors: >=20 > pg root:root# dd if=3D/dev/ad6 of=3D/dev/null bs=3D2k skip=3D51200000 > dd: /dev/ad6: Input/output error > 1261767+0 records in > 1261767+0 records out > 2584098816 bytes transferred in 795.559900 secs (3248151 bytes/sec) > pg root:root# >=20 > =3D=3D=3Dand (from the console and /var/log/messages) > Aug 1 21:58:09 moleend /kernel: ad6: hard error reading fsbn 419694136= of > 20984 > 7068-209847071 (ad6 bn 419694136; cn 26124 tn 191 sn 43) status=3D59 er= ror=3D40 >=20 > =3D=3D=3DOn the assumption that the problem was in the controller, I purc= hased a > Promise Ultra 133 TX2; the result was the same. >=20 > =3D=3D=3DI'm on 4.8, and I'd prefer to have these disks working BEFORE an= y upgrade. > If the upgrade must be to 5.X, then I really^3 want to have these disks > working first. (They're not my primary drives; I use them for rotating > backup and large projects. My primary drives are nice, well-behaved, > >expensive< SCSI drives.) Try 4.11 if you don't want to make the leap to 5.x - it's unlikely that anyone will be able to help you if the problem is in 4.8 itself. 4.11 can definitely access >127GB. Kris --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC7udmWry0BWjoQKURAn6nAKDw9NpCXZ0H7d1PJr5dx15N210ECgCffoDw POsdjoLnCLeX/wc+ERwvy2w= =m4i1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga--
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