Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:50:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Large disks (34GB), mounting and newfs problems Message-ID: <20000426145026.L40207@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004151206310.773-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> References: <20000415103634.D64727@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004151206310.773-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
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On Saturday, 15 April 2000 at 12:07:18 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 14 April 2000 at 16:02:04 -0600, Chris Wasser wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:48:28PM -0400, Otter wrote: >>>> IIRC, there was a bug in the wd driver that made it hiccup on disks >>>> 27GB. If you're running under 3.x or 4.0, try upgrading to the ata >>>> (ad) driver for a fix. >>> >>> I had a similar problem with a 37GB maxtor drive under 3.x and solved it >>> by using the b0ffb0ff flags on the wd driver, after that I was able to >>> newfs and mount it no problem, ie: >>> >>> controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0xb0ffb0ff >>> disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 >>> disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 >>> controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 flags 0xb0ffb0ff >>> disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 >>> disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 >> >> Right, that's the recommended workaround with the wd driver. Bit 12 >> (0x1000) in each of the halves of the flags sets LBA mode. This is >> probably a good idea anyway. > > Would there be any problems if I was installing to a new system > that had a 34 GIG IBM HD though? I meant doing the entire FreeBSD > installation. There are a number of issues there. You should have no trouble with the default 4.0 install. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message
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