On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:43:32PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Old systems don't support 40GB disks (except in LBA mode, which is
> > broken in other ways).
> what do you mean exactly with "old systems" ?
FreeBSD-3.x, or FreeBSD--current with the wd driver.
> 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
Old systems only support 65536 cylinders. (All FreeBSD drivers only support
65556 sectors in CHS mode.)
> 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
This is reasonable if the slice isn't [nearly] the whole disk.
Bruce
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