Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:30:07 +0000 From: "Bo Xiao" <boxiao63@hotmail.com> To: pauls@utdallas.edu, glenn@antimatter.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk? Message-ID: <BAY103-F424EB0AE394B762FC3E4C5D8BE0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <20DBCDC69BD1A9481FF4929A@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local>
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Installation on another box, also with 5.4R, went well. So it must be this particular Dell PowerEdge 750. After moving the disk back, % sudo newfs /dev/ad3s1d newfs: /dev/ad3s1d: failed to open disk for writing % sudo mount /dev/ad3s1d /mnt/a mount: /dev/ad3s1d: Operation not permitted % But dmesg gives right info so not likely the bios. Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ad2: 76293MB <Maxtor 6Y080M0/YAR51HW0> [155009/16/63] at ata1-master SATA150 ad3: 286168MB <ST3300831AS/3.02> [581421/16/63] at ata1-slave SATA150 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex Bo Xiao >From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> >Reply-To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> >To: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net>, Bo Xiao <boxiao63@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk? >Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:35:35 -0500 > >--On August 14, 2005 1:36:42 PM -0700 Glenn Dawson ><glenn@antimatter.net> wrote: > >>At 10:11 PM 8/13/2005, Bo Xiao wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Having trouble install a 300G SATA with 5.4 release. HW is Dell >>> PowerEdge. First disk >>> is a 80G SATA. All is good. When adding the 300G, sysinstall >>>cant >>> understand the >>> geom, 581421/16/63. It thinks it is 36481/255/63. Cant write to >>>the >>> disk. Even if I >>> use G to tell it, it still wont take it. >> >>Both of those geometries specify about the same amount of space, >>although >>the second one will be a tiny bit smaller, but when you have 300G >>acouple >>of missing kbytes is no big deal. >> >I missed the original post, but I'm running a Dell box with 2 300GB >SATA drives on it, and I had no problems during the install. > >Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) >Adjunct Information Security Officer >University of Texas at Dallas >AVIEN Founding Member >http://www.utdallas.edu/
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