From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 04:30:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA07574 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:30:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA07553 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:30:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id WAA19434; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:59:28 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702131229.WAA19434@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: _big_ IDE disks? In-Reply-To: <199702130841.JAA27792@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 13, 97 09:41:43 am" To: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:59:27 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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): 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 [[