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Date:      Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:21:28 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: max. partition size on 5.x
Message-ID:  <xzpacvqpa53.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040913215920.81691.qmail@web14125.mail.yahoo.com> (Claus Guttesen's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:59:20 %2B0200 (CEST)")
References:  <20040913215920.81691.qmail@web14125.mail.yahoo.com>

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Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> writes:
> After the RAID-cabinet has initialized the disks and I
> issue the camcontrol rescan all the output is
>
> da2 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da2: <SB-3140  0001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
>
> da2: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 31,
> 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da2: 764496MB (1565687808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T
> 97459C)
>
> So it's allready at this stage that the (lower) size
> is showing up. da1 has 267,348 cylinders and da2 only
> has 97,459.

this is most likely a bug in your IDE-to-SCSI enclosure's firmware.
you should check with the vendor that it actually supports 250 GB
disks.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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