From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 17:00:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB3F106566B for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3711C8FC16 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q35H0ZE9080007 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:35 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q35H0Zgg080006; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:35 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:00:35 GMT Message-Id: <201204051700.q35H0Zgg080006@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: "Brett E. Wynkoop" Cc: Subject: Fwd: Re: misc/166673: sade will not properly format 2TB disk (maybe other sizes as well) X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Brett E. Wynkoop" List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:00:35 -0000 The following reply was made to PR misc/166673; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Brett E. Wynkoop" To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, wynkoop@wynn.com Cc: Subject: Fwd: Re: misc/166673: sade will not properly format 2TB disk (maybe other sizes as well) Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:54:47 -0400 (EDT) Greeting- Just attaching the comments by JKH to the PR. -Brett On 05/Apr/2012 12:42 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote .. > Hi Brett, > > Yep, everything at Apple is going swimmingly (I see AAPL just hit $631 today - > no complaints! ;-) ). I don't know much about sade, I'm afraid, the credit you > see apparently due to the fact that they took the code out of sysinstall (and, > now that I look at sade, I see that it does indeed appear to be pretty much the > very same code). Given that, I would suspect one of two problems: > > 1. Your geometry is not in fact correct. You might try the suggested geometry, > or inspect the geometry under another OS (simply boot Linux or Windows off a thumb > drive and see how they report the drive geometry for a "2nd opinion") and try plugging > those numbers into sade, e.g. hit the "G" key in the Partition editor and manually > change them. > > 2. You're hitting a bug in libdisk, which sade uses, possibly a 32 bit overflow > because they didn't have 2Tb disks when phk and I wrote the original code. :) > > - Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- email: wynkoop@wynn.com Phone: 917-642-6925