From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 20:20:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.umr.edu (mrelay.cc.umr.edu [131.151.1.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445B637B42C for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:20:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from photon (W11716@d-131-151-188-134.dynamic.umr.edu [131.151.188.134]) via SMTP by mrelay.cc.umr.edu (8.9.3/R.4.20) id WAA11765; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 22:20:10 -0500 Message-Id: <200009060320.WAA11765@mrelay.cc.umr.edu> From: "Matthew Rezny" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:21:13 -0500 Reply-To: "Matthew Rezny" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: IDE drives >32G Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have begun to get desperate recently. I can not get IDE drives >32G (real GB) to work on off-board controllers. I have tried 36.5 and 40.0G drives on Promise Ultra66 and HighPoint ATA66 controllers in two i386 systems with 4.0-rel and a Alpha system with 4.1-rel. In one of the i386 systems, the 40G drives work when plugged into the motherboard. They work in none of the systems when connected to either of the several PCI card controllers I am trying. I get errors saying "disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument" on disklabel functions. I can't read much less edit/write a disklabel. I tried writing zeros with dd to the drives and had no luck. The same CHS geometry shows up when connected to the motherboard, or the add-in cards. In all cases, the cylinders is 65536+ and is my only guess at the problem. For a while I was using some of the drives in Linux and it had similar problems going beyond 32GB because it seems there's something wrong with the LBA support on these cards. In Linux, I was using partitions created by DOS under a proper LBA environment. This obviously won't work with ccd in FreeBSD, which is what I purchased all this equipment for use with. I have searched and watched the mailing lists intermittently(sp?) for months. Does any have any idea how to resolve these problems? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message