[Soekris] HDD maximum size - BIOS issue?
Igor Sobrado
igor at string1.ciencias.uniovi.es
Fri Jan 26 21:59:33 UTC 2007
Hello.
I have just installed a 80 GB Hitachi Travelstar enhanced availability
drive (a E7K100 drive, also known as HTE721080G9AT00). This is the
output of comBIOS when booting:
comBIOS ver. 1.28 20050529 Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering.
net4801
0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode 266 Mhz
Pri Mas HTE721080G9AT00 LBA Xlt 1024-255-63 12614 Mbyte
Pri Sla SanDisk SDCFB-1024 LBA Xlt 993-32-63 1001 Mbyte
Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10
0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10
0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10
0:10:0 104C AC23 06040002 0107 0210 08 3F 01 00000000 00000000
0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0003000 00000000 11
1:00:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000D001 A4000000 05
1:01:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000D101 A4001000 11
5 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
(it looks like a 10 GB HDD right now). After booting all seems working:
# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 156296322
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: HTE721080G9AT00
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 156301488
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 130977 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 130 # Cyl 0*- 129
b: 1048320 131040 swap # Cyl 130 - 1169
c: 156301488 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -155060
d: 131040 1179360 4.2BSD 2048 16384 130 # Cyl 1170 - 1299
e: 65520 1310400 4.2BSD 2048 16384 66 # Cyl 1300 - 1364
f: 2097648 1375920 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 1365 - 3445
g: 33264 3473568 4.2BSD 2048 16384 34 # Cyl 3446 - 3478
h: 131040 3506832 4.2BSD 2048 16384 130 # Cyl 3479 - 3608
i: 98784 3637872 4.2BSD 2048 16384 98 # Cyl 3609 - 3706
j: 49392 3736656 4.2BSD 2048 16384 50 # Cyl 3707 - 3755
k: 65520 3786048 4.2BSD 2048 16384 66 # Cyl 3756 - 3820
l: 1048320 3851568 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 3821 - 4860
m: 2097648 4899888 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 4861 - 6941
n: 4194288 6997536 4.2BSD 1024 8192 86 # Cyl 6942 - 11102
o: 2097648 11191824 4.2BSD 1024 8192 86 # Cyl 11103 - 13183
p: 143006913 13289472 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 13184 -155055*
# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 64414 28570 32624 47% /
/dev/wd0d 64446 2 61222 0% /altroot
/dev/wd0p 70374168 2 66855458 0% /home
/dev/wd0f 1030550 383890 595134 39% /usr
/dev/wd0l 513710 204 487822 0% /usr/local
/dev/wd0m 1030550 2 979022 0% /usr/obj
/dev/wd0n 2030487 1 1928962 0% /usr/ports
/dev/wd0o 1014807 1 964066 0% /usr/src
/dev/wd0e 32198 1374 29216 4% /var
/dev/wd0g 16310 32 15464 0% /var/log
/dev/wd0h 64446 8 61216 0% /var/mail
/dev/wd0i 48574 22 46124 0% /var/spool
/dev/wd0j 24246 4 23030 0% /var/tmp
/dev/wd0k 32198 3086 27504 10% /var/www
Is it safe using this drive as is?
Can a future firmware release fix this issue with large drives?
(even if it is only aesthetical, the overflow in the HDD size is certainly
confusing.)
With the previous (non-enhanced) drive, a 64 GB Travelstar drive,
detected size was ok:
comBIOS ver. 1.28 20050529 Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering.
net4801
0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode 266 Mhz
Pri Mas HTS541060G9AT00 LBA Xlt 1024-255-63 58605 Mbyte
Pri Sla SanDisk SDCFB-1024 LBA Xlt 993-32-63 1001 Mbyte
Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10
0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10
0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10
0:10:0 104C AC23 06040002 0107 0210 08 3F 01 00000000 00000000
0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0003000 00000000 11
1:00:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000D001 A4000000 05
1:01:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000D101 A4001000 11
Cheers,
Igor.
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