Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 11:50:26 -0800 (PST) From: davida@cs.uwm.edu To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/2214: File System gets corrupted when mounting dos partition on ide in LBA mode (128heads) Message-ID: <199612141950.LAA03915@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199612142000.MAA04925@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2214 >Category: kern >Synopsis: File System gets corrupted when mounting dos partition on ide in LBA mode (128heads) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: support >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 14 12:00:01 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: George Davida >Organization: Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >Release: 2.2-ALPHA >Environment: >Description: When I mounted the dos partition on a 3.2GIG ide (LBA mode with 128 heads) it caused a large number of errors complaining about clusters, then even unix commands did not work. It seems to be related to the heads-multiplier (to reduce cylinder count for silly DOS-WINDOWS). When head count is 64, it has not exhibited such errors, as I have it running on my laptop without problems. >How-To-Repeat: Mount a 128-head dos partition >Fix: ? :-) >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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