Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@gns.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Drives Greater Than 2048MBytes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970824192942.1721L-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970823182632.366U-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Doug White wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
>
> > > > Will FreeBSD support a partition over 2048MBytes in length, or is this
> > > > just a problem with the bad block scanning program?
> > >
> > > freeBSD will have no problem, it must be a bug in bad144. This is the
> > > first time I've heard of this.
> >
> > I've seen the same odd behavior. It happened with 3 different systems I
> > tried to work with.
> > Whenever I tried a partition size over 2048Mb the bad144 check crashed.
By the way, I submitted a PR and someone sent me back a patch. You'll
have to compile it and test it for yourself since I don't have any disks
to test it with at current.
This was from Bruce Evans (bde@freebsd.org). The gnats bug ID is bin/4366
if you want to look it up on the web pages.
Subject: Re: bin/4366: Submission
>>Description:
>
> bad144 crashes after it begins checking past 2048 megabytes on a
large
>hard disk. Manifested when using sysinstall's 'V' option on a large
disk.
Try this (untested) fix.
Bruce
diff -c2 bad144.c~ bad144.c
*** bad144.c~ Sat Dec 2 16:36:52 1995
--- bad144.c Tue Aug 19 21:13:27 1997
***************
*** 142,146 ****
}
! lseek(f, curr_sec * ss, L_SET);
if ((n = read(f, buf, ss)) != ss) {
--- 142,146 ----
}
! lseek(f, (off_t)ss * curr_sec, SEEK_SET);
if ((n = read(f, buf, ss)) != ss) {
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