It seems James Satterfield wrote:
Hmm there is a workaround in -current for using 48bit access to the
old promises, however it should only engage when you access areas
beyond 137G on the drives.
However using 48bit modes on older controllers are not really
a good idea as they tend to do wierd
I've got a 160GB ide drive in my FBSD box. It's got an old ide controller that doesn't
support big ide drives. Yet freebsd recognizes the drives full capacity, allows me to
partition it, and newfs it. After writing about 47GB of data to the drive, I start
getting these.
ad5: WRITE command
Okay... Perhaps I'm just a dumbass with a failing drive? For the longest time, I've
thought the hardware needed to support the large drives. From the reading I've just
done, that doesn't seem to be the case. I certainly hope this brand new drive isn't
failing tho. I really hate doing hardware
