From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 6 23:28:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01614 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01588 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09012; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:28:06 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199804070628.IAA09012@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB In-Reply-To: from Bob Lash at "Apr 6, 98 04:41:49 pm" To: bob@wbs.net (Bob Lash) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:28:06 +0200 (MEST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@ivision.co.uk From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply to Bob Lash who wrote: > It appears that a second Quantum Bigfoot TX 12 GIG owner is experiencing > the same problem -- freeBSD is recognizing it as only 8.4 GIG, and the > number of cylinders is getting capped off at 16383 (when it is actually > 23361). I am appending his post that went to freebsd-hackers. Yup, it appears we have a problem here, it seems as if we only support up to 2^14 cylinders. Does the probe line (dmesg) show the right cylinder count ?? > I had to go up with the three 12 Gig drives running as just 8.4 Gigs... > oh well... :( Well, you could ship the third to one of the developers, we will make it work and you will end up with 24G of space anyways :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message