Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:05:39 +0800 From: Clive Lin <clive@tongi.org> To: Andrew Snow <als@kanji.com.au> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ibm x345 w/ serveraid-5i + freebsd ips driver dramas Message-ID: <20030921130539.GA64930@fatpipi.cirx.org> In-Reply-To: <3F64E50E.2040608@kanji.com.au> References: <3F64E50E.2040608@kanji.com.au>
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:00:46AM +1000, Andrew Snow wrote:
> Problem 2: (the biggest problem)
>
> While the drive size is reported correctly, the geometry is wrong...
> 472 cyls/254 heads/63 sectors = 7552944 sectors (3687MB) ?!
>
> When setting the BIOS to "non-extended" (2GB max) support mode, freebsd
> then thinks this is the geometry:
> 1846 cyls/128 heads/32 sectors = 7561216 sectors (3692MB).
>
> So I tested a few alternate geometries instead and even though there
> were no error messages, it seemed to get reset to what FreeBSD was
> reporting, no matter how many ways I tried to use the fdisk utility.
Hi,
I have a quick fix for this problem.
--- sys/dev/ips/ips_disk.c~~ Sun Sep 21 19:04:44 2003
+++ sys/dev/ips/ips_disk.c Sun Sep 21 20:29:18 2003
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
dsc->ipsd_disk.d_fwsectors = IPS_COMP_SECTORS;
}
dsc->ipsd_disk.d_sectorsize = IPS_BLKSIZE;
- dsc->ipsd_disk.d_mediasize = totalsectors * IPS_BLKSIZE;
+ dsc->ipsd_disk.d_mediasize = (long long) totalsectors * IPS_BLKSIZE;
disk_create(dsc->unit, &dsc->ipsd_disk, 0, NULL, NULL);
device_printf(dev, "Logical Drive (%dMB)\n",
The (long long) casting might not be suitable on other
platform. It works for me on a dual XEON x225 box, which has a
ServeRAID 5i.
Regards,
Clive
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