Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:21:30 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabels partition sizes differ from FreeBSDs syslog messages on mounting Message-ID: <20000223152130.A1583@titan.klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002232339450.5674-100000@alphplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:43:32PM %2B1100 References: <20000223121928.A803@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002232339450.5674-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:43:32PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > I'm worried about this message and don't know if I may forget about > > it or not. I see a discrepany of disklabel partition sizes and those > > syslog messages I get, when I mount something from my 40GB EIDE disk. > > Old systems don't support 40GB disks (except in LBA mode, which is > broken in other ways). Hi Bruce, what do you mean exactly with "old systems" ? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't "old hardware", since I have a *brand new* EIDE controller (Abit) which _is_ capable of recognizing the 40 GB harddisk. Please look here: FreeBSD is able to detect the drive in it's full size, kernel message: ad4: 39082MB <Maxtor 54098U8> [79406/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33 79406*16*63= 80041248 sectors FreeBSD offers during installation to use a more clever partitioning scheme (sector translation). The values seem reasonable for me: Systinstall displays in the first line: 4982 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 80035830 sectors 4982*255*63= 80035830 which is smaller than the total sector size of the drive (80041248) Disklabel also has reasonable entries: sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 cylinders: 4217 sectors/unit: 67746105 255*63*4217= 67746105 which should be the size of my FreeBSD slice Could you please be more verbose on what's going wrong in your opineon ? I assume you might have missed the point, that I use a brand new EIDE controller and turned off on board IDE ... Anyway, thanks for your answer Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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