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Date:      Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:50:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Wes Bauske" <wsb@paralleldata.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/15611: EIDE Large Disk Support, Newfs problem, File system  corruption,IBM-DPTA-353750
Message-ID:  <199912270050.QAA82466@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/15611; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Wes Bauske" <wsb@paralleldata.com>
To: mjacob@FreeBSD.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, rjbubon@bigi.com
Subject: Re: kern/15611: EIDE Large Disk Support, Newfs problem, File system 
 corruption,IBM-DPTA-353750
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 18:37:11 -0600

 Matt,
 
 OK. I assume you also wrote some significant files onto it??
 I wrote a 2GB file for testing.
 
 The file system does create most of the time. It's only when
 you start writing data to it that there's trouble. Also, if
 your single file system works, then it may be something to
 do with my layout. To recap, I have 2 slices, one is 1GB
 with 128MB swap, and the rest root(/) and the other slice
 contains a single FS of around 38GB as work space for my
 application.
 
 I'm running pure 3.3 from the Walnut Creek CD, no updates.
 
 I haven't made any further progress at this point. I do know
 that once I exceeded 32GB for the FS in the second slice, I
 trashed the first slice. By that, I mean root was hosed
 complaining about I-node problems on reboot and dropping to
 a shell to "fix" it but I had no idea what would fix thousands
 of I-node errors so I just re-installed.
 
 As I mentioned, this is my first FreeBSD install so if there's
 something I'm assuming that is incorrect, like the above slice
 layout for example, let me know.
 
 Interesting that FreeBSD questioned the geometry. I have Linux
 on another partition and it's fdisk complains about the 40GB
 drive on the second IDE channel's geometry but not the ones
 on the first IDE channel. (I have 3 40GB drives on this box for
 tests) Did you put your test drive on the secondary IDE channel??
 
 Also, what about forcing the driver to use LBA mode? I tried
 that but might not have done it correctly and it still failed.
 I used 0xf0ff for the flag. 
 
 Get's tiring to reinstall the OS after each test.
 
 
 Wes
 
 Matthew Jacob wrote:
 > 
 > For what it's worth, I just attached a 37GB drive like Wes' to my
 > -current Tyan mother board
 > system:
 > 
 > ata1-master: success setting up UDMA2 mode on PIIX4 chip
 > ad1: piomode=4 dmamode=2 udmamode=4 cblid=1
 > ad1: <IBM-DPTA-353750/P51OA30A> ATA-4 disk at ata1 as master
 > ad1: 35772MB (73261440 sectors), 72680 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
 > ad1: 16 secs/int, 32 depth queue, UDMA33
 > Creating DISK ad1
 > 
 > I had no trouble whatsoever creating a filesystem that covered the whole
 > disk.
 > sysinstall questioned the geometry, but all seemed well otherwise.
 > 
 > lorq.feral.com > root disklabel ad1
 > # /dev/rad1c:
 > type: ESDI
 > disk: ad1s1
 > label:
 > flags:
 > bytes/sector: 512
 > sectors/track: 63
 > tracks/cylinder: 255
 > sectors/cylinder: 16065
 > cylinders: 4559
 > sectors/unit: 73256337
 > rpm: 3600
 > interleave: 1
 > trackskew: 0
 > cylinderskew: 0
 > headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
 > track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
 > drivedata: 0
 > 
 > 8 partitions:
 > #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
 >   a: 10000000        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 -
 > 622*)
 >   c: 73256337        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
 > 4559*)
 >   d: 73256337        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 -
 > 4559*)
 


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