Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:28:23 -0400 From: Delanet Administration <admin@delanet.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Trouble with 40gig ide drives Message-ID: <38FC7106.91F9006B@delanet.com>
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I'm having a little trouble getting FreeBSD 3.4 stable to use a 40gig maxtor HD. boot message shows: Apr 18 04:50:34 wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa Apr 18 04:50:34 mysql /kernel: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 94098U8> Apr 18 04:50:34 mysql /kernel: wd0: 39082MB (80041248 sectors), 79406 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S Fdisk from sysinstall shows: 4982 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 80035830 sectors Label from sysinstall shows: Disk: wd0 Partition name: wd0s1 Free: 80035767 blocks (39079MB) newfs works fine, however the drive fails to mount with the following: Error mounting /dev/wd0s1e on /ide : Invalid argument console shows the error message of 'Unknown major/minor for devtype' I know the drive works on the hardware as I have an identical machine running NT where I took the drive from. Bios does report the size/geometry incorrectly. Seems the bios has a max limit of 65535 for cylinders and 16 heads however from the little I found in the archives I was under the impression BSD got the geometry from the drive itself and ignored the bios? Any help would be appreciated. Please cc me in replies as I'm no longer on the list. Regards, -- Stephen Comoletti Systems Administrator Delanet, Inc. http://www.delanet.com ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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