From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 15:14:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00AC16A41F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:14:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from materribile@yahoo.com) Received: from web33501.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33501.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F75C43D48 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:14:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from materribile@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 99647 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Aug 2005 15:14:15 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=lWytiWicGLPguIsxTjmjazdRQOsdAzegvxMP3OQnCUGH2gEwj+Z7TunmcPn64Uhg6JsJd9Nyp2WIVbQ+5ueNZLffgqgiVdryU344uhP3nb8aQftGaa91B+KRAkPCcyoHV2Kp57QEL1i3c58j1/FIEzkbwp6YZxBn6SNh4iVeWVM= ; Message-ID: <20050802151415.99645.qmail@web33501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.213.101.250] by web33501.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:14:15 PDT Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 08:14:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Terribile To: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20050802045911.080cd700@cobalt.antimatter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA over 127 GByte on FBSD 4.8 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:14:16 -0000 Glenn, > At 12:32 AM 8/2/2005, Mark Terribile wrote: > > > [materribile wrote] > > > > ===I recently replaced smaller drives with a 160G and 250G drives > > > >(IDE). ... attempts to access anything above 127G resulted in errors: > >[Kris Kennaway wrote] > > > Try 4.11 if you don't want to make the leap to 5.x ... > > > 4.11 can definitely access >127GB. > > > >Looming over this is the possibility that, after I install 4.11, it still > >won't work, not because of a basic problem in the OS, but because I have > >some setting wrong somewhere. > > Are you asking for solutions to problems you don't have yet? I want to solve the actual problem, not make new ones, since ... > >... > According to CVS logs, 48 bit addressing first appeared in version > 1.60.2.19 of ata-disk.c which was included in the 4.5 release. Well, if it's supposed to work in 4.5 and beyond, and if it doesn't work on my 4.8, it's a fair bet that the problem is something in my configuration. If I don't fix that, 4.11 may not work either, and I'll have the added handicap of all the additional variables that the update may introduce. So suggestions on things to check first are still very welcome. I'll need to set a whole day aside for the upgrade to deal with surprises. I won't get that for at least a week and a half, so I have plenty of time to check other things first. Mark Terribile ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs