From owner-freebsd-firewire Mon Sep 23 7:17:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441E937B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:17:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vault.chamber.ee (vault.chamber.ee [195.50.209.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB3743E4A for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from exile@chamber.ee) Received: from chamber.ee (nobody@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vault.chamber.ee (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g8NFIvb0019610; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:18:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from exile@chamber.ee) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:18:57 -0000 To: Katsushi Kobayashi , exile@chamber.ee Subject: Re: 28bit address limitation on HD From: Sten Poldma X-Mailer: twiggi 1.10.3 Cc: freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: exile@chamber.ee Message-ID: <20020923171857.re4bt81isgg8k@.chamber.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Thanks for the response, that's probably it, The bridge uses the Oxford chipset, which probably does not support the 48 bit mode. I'm sure a new box will remedy the problem. Thanks again, Sten Katsushi Kobayashi said: > > I have not had any experience on the such disk size of IEEE1394 disk. > > If you are using IEEE1394/IDE bridge or similar one, let me know > the product information. Or if you have an experience on other OS, > let me know whether to success to detect size in correct. > > > On 2002.Sep.23, at 09:19 PM, Sten Poldma wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm Sorry if the following is not firewire related but depends on > > other system > > components instead. > > > > I'm using the newest firewire driver > > (http://people.freebsd.org/~simokawa/firewire-20020918.tar.gz) > > > > To test a 160GB IDE drive (in a box), through the CAM and passthrough > > drivers I > > have no problem locating the device (da0) but the geometry of the > > drive found > > makes me believe that there is a 28bit addressing mode bottleneck > > somewhere as > > the log reports that 268435455 512 byte sectors found. (~131GB) (I > > believe > > 268435456 being the 28bit limit?) > > > > Although using it is OK I'm still wondering if it would be possible to > > locate > > the missing 20GB before the disk actually goes into active use. > > > > I'd like to know what is causing this limitation? > > > >> From the hardware I have: > > > > FreeBSD 4.4 -> make buildworld to 4.6.2, latest > > kernel: 4.7-RC FreeBSD 4.7-RC #0: Sun Sep 22 01:39:47 EET 2002 > > Firewire PCI card: fwohci0: > > and a Western Digital 160GB drive in a standard firewire box. > > > > Again, accept my apologies if this is the wrong place to request > > help\clarification on the matter but any help or hint is appreciated. > > > > Have a nice day, > > > > Sten > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message