From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 14:34:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551BB37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail3.alcanet.com.au [208.178.117.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1259443F3F for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: from sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])h37LY1is025469; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:34:01 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au ([139.188.20.247]) by sydsmtp01.alcatel.com.au (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.11) with ESMTP id 2003040807335976:3856 ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:33:59 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h37LXxai049167; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:33:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.8/8.12.5/Submit) id h37LXwXN049166; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:33:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:33:58 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: so14k@so14k.com Message-ID: <20030407213357.GA49137@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: so14k@so14k.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <56193.12.211.226.151.1049515942.squirrel@mail.so14k.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56193.12.211.226.151.1049515942.squirrel@mail.so14k.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on SYDSMTP01/AlcatelAustralia(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 08/04/2003 07:33:59 AM,|July 24, 2002) at 08/04/2003 07:34:01 AM, Serialize complete at 08/04/2003 07:34:01 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:34:04 -0000 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