From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 28 0: 5: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB63815008; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA03505; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:07:15 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:05:01 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mike Smith Cc: Brandon DeYoung , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives In-Reply-To: <199912280729.XAA01543@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You're probably right, but as I verified that it works for me with the new ATA driver, I'm satisfied that the problem is at best second order. On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > See kern/15611- Wes Bauske has seen the very same thing... I have a 50GB > > drive I'll try on Sunday... > > Looking at the audit trail on this, the evidence suggests that the 'wd' > driver may have problems with operations beyond the 32GB mark, and that > use of the LBA flag may be a viable workaround for this problem. > > This is probably worth tracking down, or at least verifying for errata > purposes. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message