From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 27 23:25: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles542.castles.com [208.214.165.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63E5153EF for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01543; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:29:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912280729.XAA01543@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Brandon DeYoung , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Dec 1999 18:40:22 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:29:48 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > See kern/15611- Wes Bauske has seen the very same thing... I have a 50GB > drive I'll try on Sunday... Looking at the audit trail on this, the evidence suggests that the 'wd' driver may have problems with operations beyond the 32GB mark, and that use of the LBA flag may be a viable workaround for this problem. This is probably worth tracking down, or at least verifying for errata purposes. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message