From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 7 11:55:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15035 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from webchat2.wbs.net (ws3.wbs.net [207.88.172.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15002; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@wbs.net) Received: (from bob@localhost) by webchat2.wbs.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id LAA06905; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:54:53 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:54:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Lash To: "John S. Dyson" , technical@wbs.net cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@ivision.co.uk Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB In-Reply-To: <199804070709.CAA20391@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 ?? No... dmesg shows the cylinder count capped off at 16383 (instead of the 23,361 value found by BIOS). Here are the relevant dmesg messages: wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): wd1: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): wd2: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1: unit 1 (wd3): wd3: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > If Bob wants to fix it himself, we would also be willing to commit the > changes. > > John > Thanks for the thought, John -- I wish I knew enough about the inner workings of freeBSD to directly help with the code... :) Best wishes, Bob Lash bob@wbs.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message