Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:59:27 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: _big_ IDE disks? Message-ID: <199702131229.WAA19434@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199702130841.JAA27792@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 13, 97 09:41:43 am"
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Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > (re: maxtor 5GB IDE) > Hmm, this is exactly one of the drives I'm planning to buy for my ATA > project (which I think I told you right?), just a wee bit short of cash > yet, but if this is important enough, I'll try find a solution to that. > We are likely to have to change a fair bit of arithmetic here and > there it seems, to have this working for wd/ata/ide devices :( Sorry for the false alarm, and perhaps more happiness; it looks like _no_ work other than the cosmetic during the probe is actually required. FWIW, when the disk is working, it looks like this : wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 85120 A8 -> wd0: 788MB (10003392 sectors), 9924 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S (I forgot to turn on the 32bit/multi-block stuff on this one...) They actually seem to perform alright (though I'm not doing anything terribly heavy on it, and they're _very_ quiet. > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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