Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:35:23 +0900 From: Katsushi Kobayashi <ikob@koganei.wide.ad.jp> To: exile@chamber.ee Cc: freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 28bit address limitation on HD Message-ID: <4FADD69D-CEF9-11D6-8E6A-000393D603A4@koganei.wide.ad.jp> In-Reply-To: <20020923141950.re5k5m1g9s00o@.chamber.ee>
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I have not had any experience on the such disk size of IEEE1394 disk. If you are using IEEE1394/IDE bridge or similar one, let me know the product information. Or if you have an experience on other OS, let me know whether to success to detect size in correct. On 2002.Sep.23, at 09:19 PM, Sten Poldma wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm Sorry if the following is not firewire related but depends on > other system > components instead. > > I'm using the newest firewire driver > (http://people.freebsd.org/~simokawa/firewire-20020918.tar.gz) > > To test a 160GB IDE drive (in a box), through the CAM and passthrough > drivers I > have no problem locating the device (da0) but the geometry of the > drive found > makes me believe that there is a 28bit addressing mode bottleneck > somewhere as > the log reports that 268435455 512 byte sectors found. (~131GB) (I > believe > 268435456 being the 28bit limit?) > > Although using it is OK I'm still wondering if it would be possible to > locate > the missing 20GB before the disk actually goes into active use. > > I'd like to know what is causing this limitation? > >> From the hardware I have: > > FreeBSD 4.4 -> make buildworld to 4.6.2, latest > kernel: 4.7-RC FreeBSD 4.7-RC #0: Sun Sep 22 01:39:47 EET 2002 > Firewire PCI card: fwohci0: <Texas Instruments TSB12LV26> > and a Western Digital 160GB drive in a standard firewire box. > > Again, accept my apologies if this is the wrong place to request > help\clarification on the matter but any help or hint is appreciated. > > Have a nice day, > > Sten > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message
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