From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 27 15: 4:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74F014A08 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:04:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA61454; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:34:26 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:34:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Eric Kozowski Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <19991228093426.G1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000801bf4db2$18798dc0$333c5d18@austin.rr.com> <19991224213939.A15752@schooner.svjava.com> <19991226102111.F1316@freebie.lemis.com> <19991225205540.A22423@schooner.svjava.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991225205540.A22423@schooner.svjava.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 25 December 1999 at 20:55:40 -0800, Eric Kozowski wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 10:21:11AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> I don't know how you can determine that this is the "same problem". > > s/same/similar/ That's a big difference. >> There are almost no details of what happened. The BIOS upgrade >> wouldn't make any difference, since FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS. > > right, but the maxtor site says some of it's 36gb drives have problems > w/ older bios that cause formats to fail. > > http://www.maxtor.com/technology/infobulls/13027.html Sure, but that has nothing to do with FreeBSD. >> I'm currently investigating some reported problems in this area. >> Specifically, ufs file systems of 27.5 GB and up have been reported to >> fail to create file systems. On one occasion, newfs reported that the >> file system was read only. In another case, the newfs completed, but >> the system paniced writing to the file system. It would be nice to >> know what *really* happened to each of you. > > newfs croaked w/ the read only error. i tried using both the tools in > /stand/sysinstall and the equivalent cli commands. Are you using LBA? Greg -- 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-hardware" in the body of the message