On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:43:32PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > I'm worried about this message and don't know if I may forget about
> > it or not. I see a discrepany of disklabel partition sizes and those
> > syslog messages I get, when I mount something from my 40GB EIDE disk.
>
> Old systems don't support 40GB disks (except in LBA mode, which is
> broken in other ways).
Hi Bruce,
what do you mean exactly with "old systems" ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't "old hardware", since I have
a *brand new* EIDE controller (Abit) which _is_ capable of recognizing
the 40 GB harddisk.
Please look here:
FreeBSD is able to detect the drive in it's full size, kernel message:
ad4: 39082MB <Maxtor 54098U8> [79406/16/63] at ata2-master using UDMA33
79406*16*63= 80041248 sectors
FreeBSD offers during installation to use a more clever partitioning scheme
(sector translation). The values seem reasonable for me:
Systinstall displays in the first line:
4982 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 80035830 sectors
4982*255*63= 80035830
which is smaller than the total sector size of the drive (80041248)
Disklabel also has reasonable entries:
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
cylinders: 4217
sectors/unit: 67746105
255*63*4217= 67746105
which should be the size of my FreeBSD slice
Could you please be more verbose on what's going wrong in your
opineon ? I assume you might have missed the point, that I use
a brand new EIDE controller and turned off on board IDE ...
Anyway, thanks for your answer
Andreas ///
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