Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:09:19 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bob@wbs.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@ivision.co.uk Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB Message-ID: <199804070709.CAA20391@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199804070628.IAA09012@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Apr 7, 98 08:28:06 am"
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> 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
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