Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 13:18:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Julian <julian@ivision.co.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Quantum bigfoot 12Gig Message-ID: <E0yJeSh-0002zh-00@stingray.ivision.co.uk>
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I think that this is the right list, rather than 'filesystems', apologies if this is off topic. Apologies also for the length of this email, but it would be pointless without the associated details. I have recently purchased a Quantum Bigfoot 12Gig drive, I admit that I was careless, and assumed that the drive would just work under FreeBSD. The problem appears to be that the number of cylinders is greater than FreeBSD 2.2.2 will cope with. I can if necessary upgrade to 2.2.5 although don't really want to unless that will actually resolve the problem. Disklabel from Quantum bigfoot # /dev/rwd2: type: ESDI disk: wd2s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 23361 sectors/unit: 23547888 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 23547888 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 23360) >From the in core copy # /dev/rwd2: type: unknown disk: label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 16383 sectors/unit: 16514064 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 16514064 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 16382) Note that the cylinders are where the 'main' difference appears to lie. I have manually set my bios to the 'correct' figures, but if I let it autodetect then it gives the figures that FreeBSD comes up with. This is an exclusively FreeBSD system, and I don't need it to work with DOS, or any other OS. I do not need to boot off this disk. It is just there for storage purposes. I want/need to be able to use 12G of the disk, and not just the 8 that is on offer. I will keep playing, but on and off I have spent a week on this, and thus far to no avail. Julian Unix Admin, Internet Vision To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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