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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bob Lash <bob@wbs.net>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, technical@wbs.net
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@ivision.co.uk
Subject:   Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.980407114409.6475B-100000@webchat2.wbs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199804070709.CAA20391@dyson.iquest.net>

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> > Yup, it appears we have a problem here, it seems as if we only support
> > up to 2^14 cylinders. Does the probe line (dmesg) show the right
> > cylinder count ??

No... dmesg shows the cylinder count capped off at 16383 (instead of 
the 23,361 value found by BIOS). Here are the relevant dmesg messages:

wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <QUANTUM FIREBALL SE8.4A>
wd1: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <QUANTUM FIREBALL SE8.4A>
wd2: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1: unit 1 (wd3): <QUANTUM FIREBALL SE8.4A>
wd3: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

> 
> If Bob wants to fix it himself, we would also be willing to commit the
> changes.
> 
> John
> 

Thanks for the thought, John -- I wish I knew enough about the inner 
workings of freeBSD to directly help with the code... :)

Best wishes,

Bob Lash
bob@wbs.net

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