From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 9 20:15:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailext03.compaq.com (mailext03.compaq.com [207.18.199.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE0414D50; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 10520151FCF; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:15:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint11.compaq.com [207.18.199.189]) by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DB8148506; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:15:14 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id A223255F02; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:15:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [16.158.59.135]) by mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3F252D01; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:15:05 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00488; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:22:14 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:22:13 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Gregory Sutter Cc: Joerg Micheel , Mitch Collinsworth , Mike Smith , Brandon DeYoung , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <20000109162213.A418@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> <19991226102238.G1316@freebie.lemis.com> <20000105143710.I2049@cs.waikato.ac.nz> <20000105123654.F30038@freebie.lemis.com> <20000105113359.C68135@azazel.zer0.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000105113359.C68135@azazel.zer0.org>; from gsutter@pobox.com on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:33:59AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 5 January 2000 at 11:33:59 -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:36:54PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 10:22:39AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> On Friday, 24 December 1999 at 23:16:54 -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: >>>>>> Someone else, sometime, wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Are hard drives larger than 32 GB supported by Free BSD. I've had both = >>>>>>> the 3.3 and 3.4 releases fail during the make New FS portion of the = >>>>>>> install, when installing on a Maxtor 36 GB drive. >>>>> >>>>> There's been discussion of this recently, I think on -questions. >>>>> Those involved seemed to agree there is a newfs barrier at around >>>>> 27 to 27.5 GB. Smaller works fine, larger fails. Based on that you >>>>> should be able to partition your 36 GB and make it usable now. IIRC >>>>> there is a new driver in the works that's supposed to solve the >>>>> problem. >>>> >>>> Correct. That's a thing I forgot to mention in my last message: we've >>>> tried the new ata driver with large disks and had no problems. That >> >> Right, the problems have only occurred on IDE drives. That's why we >> suspect the driver. > > I newfs'ed a 37.5 GB IDE drive two days ago with no problems. I haven't > filled it past 27GB yet, but if the problem manifests at newfs time, > then I did not experience it. Could it be related to the way the disk > is addressed (LBA)? I've heard a report from Germany that using LBA solved the problem. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message