Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 05:05:09 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Mark Terribile <materribile@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA over 127 GByte on FBSD 4.8 ? Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20050802045911.080cd700@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <20050802073210.16064.qmail@web33512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050802051237.6A47B16A424@hub.freebsd.org> <20050802073210.16064.qmail@web33512.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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At 12:32 AM 8/2/2005, Mark Terribile wrote: > > [materribile wrote] > > > ===I recently replaced smaller drives with a 160G and 250G drives (IDE). > > > They were on the Gigabyte motherboard's SiS 963 chipset. I > discovered that > > > attempts to access anything above 127G resulted in errors: > > > ... >[Kris Kennaway wrote] > > 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. > >Looming over this is the possibility that, after I install 4.11, it still >won't work, not because of a basic problem in the OS, but because I have >some setting wrong somewhere. Are you asking for solutions to problems you don't have yet? >I'd be grateful for suggestions on what to >check -- and for any history about when support for >127 GByte entered >FreeBSD. (Is this `lba48 support'?) I did go back and read release notes; >if it was in there I missed it. According to CVS logs, 48 bit addressing first appeared in version 1.60.2.19 of ata-disk.c which was included in the 4.5 release. -Glenn > Mark Terribile > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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