Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:03:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Lash <bob@wbs.net> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, technical@wbs.net, 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.3.91.980407120121.6938A-100000@webchat2.wbs.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980407114409.6475B-100000@webchat2.wbs.net>
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Correction -- the dmesg file for this machine shows: wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.0AT> 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 Bigfoot TX12.0AT> wd2: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1: unit 1 (wd3): <QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.0AT> wd3: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S (The other dmesg listing was for it's sister machine, which actully *does* have 8.4 Gig drives on it! Ooops...) - Bob On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Bob Lash wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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