Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:33:58 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: so14k@so14k.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100 Message-ID: <20030407213357.GA49137@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <56193.12.211.226.151.1049515942.squirrel@mail.so14k.com> References: <56193.12.211.226.151.1049515942.squirrel@mail.so14k.com>
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On 2003-Apr-04 21:12:22 -0700, so14k@so14k.com wrote:
>This is what is shown before sysinstall launches, with the stuff in
>parentheses as ASCII characters:
>ad0: dma limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
>ad0: 692MB <(smiley face black)C 5(smiley face white)0(heart)0(smiley face
>black)T@A 4!0> [1407/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
I have exactly the same behaviour on a Compaq Armada 1592. It seems
that the ATA disk probe will return total garbage if either the disk
or CD-ROM are accessed by the BIOS prior to starting FreeBSD. (In my
case, I usually get ridiculuously high sizes - 43403MB on one recent
reboot).
I have posted about this problem several times over the past few years
without any result. I've tried a couple of different 1592's with
exactly the same results so I don't believe it is faulty hardware.
There doesn't appear to be any problem other than the corrupt probe so
I just ignore it.
FWIW, the controller in the 1592 is:
atapci0@pci0:20:0: class=0x010180 card=0x0e1103f4 chip=0xd5681045 rev=0x30 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'OPTi Inc.'
device = '82C825 FireBridge II PCI EIDE Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = ATA
Peter
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