Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:37:10 +1300 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@graphics.cornell.edu>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, Brandon DeYoung <brandon@schoolpeople.net>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: 36 GB IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <20000105143710.I2049@cs.waikato.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: <19991226102238.G1316@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 10:22:39AM %2B1030 References: <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> <199912250416.XAA78976@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> <19991226102238.G1316@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 10:22:39AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 24 December 1999 at 23:16:54 -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > > >>> Are hard drives larger than 32 GB supported by Free BSD. I've had both = > >>> the 3.3 and 3.4 releases fail during the make New FS portion of the = > >>> install, when installing on a Maxtor 36 GB drive. > >> > >> There shouldn't be any issues with large drives, no. Since you don't > >> provide any details to qualify "fail", it's hard to guess where your > >> problems might lie. > > > > There's been discussion of this recently, I think on -questions. > > Those involved seemed to agree there is a newfs barrier at around > > 27 to 27.5 GB. Smaller works fine, larger fails. Based on that you > > should be able to partition your 36 GB and make it usable now. IIRC > > there is a new driver in the works that's supposed to solve the > > problem. > > Correct. That's a thing I forgot to mention in my last message: we've > tried the new ata driver with large disks and had no problems. That > doesn't mean there are none, though: until we know what causes the > problems, we can't be sure that they're gone. ata is standard in 4.0. FIW, I'm running a Seagate 50GB SCSI drive since about a month in a 3.3-RELEASE system without problems. Dec 10 13:50:17 negara /kernel: da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 Dec 10 13:50:17 negara /kernel: da0: <SEAGATE ST150176LW 0002> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device Dec 10 13:50:17 negara /kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queue ing Enabled Dec 10 13:50:17 negara /kernel: da0: 47702MB (97693755 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 6081C) Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, CompScience Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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