Bug 15631
| Summary: | 3.4 won't install with IBM 37.5 gb disks | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | rec | ||||
| Component: | i386 | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
rec
1999-12-22 18:40:01 UTC
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:39:42 PST, rec@RCousins.com wrote: > I will lend the disk to a developer or contribute money to buy one. > I just want the bug(s) fixed. That's a kind offer, and one that the wd driver's maintainer might take you up on, but let's cover some basics first. :-) > The installation dies as soon as it build the filesystems and begins > to copy files onto the disk. When you say it dies, what do you mean? Does the entire system lock up and become unresponsive to attempts to switch virtual terminals? Do any error messages come up on any of the virtual terminals? Does the machine reboot spontaneously? > Take any machine with an IBM 37.5 gb IDE disk as the primary system > disk and perform the install from floppy. Did you have any other operating system on the disk? I know you said it was new, but you might have meant age, rather than use. If so, how was the disk partitioned when you started? How did you partition and label the disk? Can you copy down the kernel boot probe messages that were displayed for your wdc controller and wd devices? Ciao, Sheldon. This is a multi-part message in MIME format. State Changed From-To: open->feedback I'm pretty sure this would work better in 4.0 or 4.1. Are you able to provide me with clarification on whether it does in your case? ----- Forwarded message from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> ----- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 05:37:09 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: nbm@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: rec@RCousins.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/15631: 3.4 won't install with IBM 37.5 gb disks On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 nbm@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > Synopsis: 3.4 won't install with IBM 37.5 gb disks > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: nbm > State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 5 16:20:19 PDT 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > I'm pretty sure this would work better in 4.0 or 4.1. Are you able to > provide me with clarification on whether it does in your case? This problem is still in FreeBSD-3-stable, except it can be worked around using LBA mode (don't use panic dumps in LBA mode under FreeBSD-3.4). See PR 15611, and wd.c revs 1.218, 1.219 and 1.186.2.5. Bruce ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Robert Cousins <rec@RCousins.com> ----- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 14:06:49 -0700 From: Robert Cousins <rec@RCousins.com> Organization: Cousins Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) To: nbm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/15631: 3.4 won't install with IBM 37.5 gb disks nbm@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Synopsis: 3.4 won't install with IBM 37.5 gb disks > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: nbm > State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 5 16:20:19 PDT 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > I'm pretty sure this would work better in 4.0 or 4.1. Are you able to > provide me with clarification on whether it does in your case? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15631 I've tried the 61 gb IBM disks under 4.0 and it does work. I made the 37.5's work by rebuilding the generic kernel and building custom boot disks. Thanx ----- End forwarded message ----- On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:00:02 MST, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> This problem is still in FreeBSD-3-stable, except it can be worked around
> using LBA mode (don't use panic dumps in LBA mode under FreeBSD-3.4). See
> PR 15611, and wd.c revs 1.218, 1.219 and 1.186.2.5.
I'm unsure where to go with this. Do Bruce's patches on PR 15611 allow
for the use of >32GB filesystems in RELENG_3 without the use of LBA
mode?
Irrespective, since there's no future release scheduled on the RELENG_3
line, I think the way to go with this one is to add an errata entry for
3.5-RELEASE. However, I can't write the text without understanding the
problem fully, and I can't test this out myself because I don't have
enough scratch hardware.
Can anyone come up with a description for the erratum, possibly letting
me know whether or not Bruce's patches from PR 15611 are appropriate for
inclusion?
Ciao,
Sheldon.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > This problem is still in FreeBSD-3-stable, except it can be worked around > > using LBA mode (don't use panic dumps in LBA mode under FreeBSD-3.4). See > > PR 15611, and wd.c revs 1.218, 1.219 and 1.186.2.5. > > I'm unsure where to go with this. Do Bruce's patches on PR 15611 allow > for the use of >32GB filesystems in RELENG_3 without the use of LBA > mode? No, they only make it fail properly in CHS mode. The wd driver went away too fast in -current for me to finish the fix. > Irrespective, since there's no future release scheduled on the RELENG_3 > line, I think the way to go with this one is to add an errata entry for > 3.5-RELEASE. However, I can't write the text without understanding the > problem fully, and I can't test this out myself because I don't have > enough scratch hardware. Same here. My largest drive is 9GB :-). Bruce State Changed From-To: feedback->closed According to bde, this problem has been fixed. |
