The following reply was made to PR misc/166673; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Brett E. Wynkoop" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Cc: Subject: Fwd: Re: misc/166673: sade will not properly format 2TB disk (maybe other sizes as well) Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:54:47 -0400 (EDT) Greeting- Just attaching the comments by JKH to the PR. -Brett On 05/Apr/2012 12:42 Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh --AT-- freebsd.org> wrote .. > Hi Brett, > > Yep, everything at Apple is going swimmingly (I see AAPL just hit $631 today > - > no complaints! ;-) ). I don't know much about sade, I'm afraid, the > credit you > see apparently due to the fact that they took the code out of sysinstall > (and, > now that I look at sade, I see that it does indeed appear to be pretty much > the > very same code). Given that, I would suspect one of two problems: > > 1. Your geometry is not in fact correct. You might try the suggested > geometry, > or inspect the geometry under another OS (simply boot Linux or Windows off a > thumb > drive and see how they report the drive geometry for a "2nd opinion") and try plugging > those numbers into sade, e.g. hit the "G" key in the Partition editor and > manually > change them. > > 2. You're hitting a bug in libdisk, which sade uses, possibly a 32 bit > overflow > because they didn't have 2Tb disks when phk and I wrote the original code. :) > > - Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- email: [email protected] Phone: 917-642-6925 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
