On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 07:40:31PM -0700, Mark Terribile wrote: > > ===I recently replaced smaller drives with a 160G and 250G drives (IDE). > They were on the Gigabyte motherboard's SiS 963 chipset. I discovered that > attempts to access anything above 127G resulted in errors: > > pg root:root# dd if=/dev/ad6 of=/dev/null bs=2k skip=51200000 > dd: /dev/ad6: Input/output error > 1261767+0 records in > 1261767+0 records out > 2584098816 bytes transferred in 795.559900 secs (3248151 bytes/sec) > pg root:root# > > ===and (from the console and /var/log/messages) > Aug 1 21:58:09 moleend /kernel: ad6: hard error reading fsbn 419694136 of > 20984 > 7068-209847071 (ad6 bn 419694136; cn 26124 tn 191 sn 43) status=59 error=40 > > ===On the assumption that the problem was in the controller, I purchased a > Promise Ultra 133 TX2; the result was the same. > > ===I'm on 4.8, and I'd prefer to have these disks working BEFORE any upgrade. > If the upgrade must be to 5.X, then I really^3 want to have these disks > working first. (They're not my primary drives; I use them for rotating > backup and large projects. My primary drives are nice, well-behaved, > >expensive< SCSI drives.)
Try 4.11 if you don't want to make the leap to 5.x - it's unlikely that anyone will be able to help you if the problem is in 4.8 itself. 4.11 can definitely access >127GB. Kris
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