From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 7 00:09:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09054 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 00:09:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09035; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 00:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA20391; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:09:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804070709.CAA20391@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB In-Reply-To: <199804070628.IAA09012@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Apr 7, 98 08:28:06 am" To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:09:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: bob@wbs.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@ivision.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 :) > If Bob wants to fix it himself, we would also be willing to commit the changes. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message