Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:54:15 -0600 From: Alan Edmonds <alan.edmonds@sterling.com> To: r.ruffinengo@teoresi.it Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large disk support Message-ID: <38E26D77.D542E9E8@sterling.com> References: <200003291528.RAA12084@posta.teoresi.it>
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I would guess the partition is too large. Did you try a dd if=/partition and see if it can read the entire partiton? Roberto Ruffinengo wrote: > > Hi all, > is there any problem with large disks? > I am not able to do a newfs on a 12G byte partition. > > This is my geometry: > > newww# disklabel wd0 > > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 409600 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 25*) > b: 522240 409600 swap # (Cyl. 25*- 58*) > c: 26688576 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1661*) > e: 3096576 931840 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 58*- 250*) > f: 8849408 4028416 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 250*- 801*) > g: 13810752 12877824 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 801*-1661*) > > and this is my error: > newwww# newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 wd0g > write error: 13810751 > newfs: wtfs: Input/output error > > newwww# tail f- /var/log/messages: > Mar 29 16:27:58 newwww /kernel: wd0g: hard error writing fsbn 13810751 > (wd0 bn 26688575; cn 1661 tn 73 sn 11) (status 51<rdy,seekdone,err> > error 10<no_id>) > > Maybe this partition is too large? > > Thanks, > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > Roberto Ruffinengo > > Teoresi s.r.l. > Via Perugia, 24 - 10152 Torino (TO) > Tel. +39 (0)11 2408000 > Fax. +39 (0)11 2408024 > e-mail: r.ruffinengo@teoresi.it URL: http://www.teoresi.it > __________________________________________________________________________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Alan Edmonds, KB5ZUY Sterling Software M/S 132 Phone: +1-972-801-6485 5800 Tennyson Pkwy. Email: alan.edmonds@sterling.com Plano, TX, USA 75024 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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