Re: Another WTF moment

2012-12-19 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message Adrian Chadd wrote: >Wow, I didn't even know this existed! My apologies for not replying sooner. It has been a hectic few days. Anyway, yes, there are two kinds of "hidden" areas that may be present on a hard drive, Host Protected Area (HPA) and then separately also the Device Con

Re: Another WTF moment

2012-12-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Wow, I didn't even know this existed! Would you mind filing a doc PR with this information, along with how you figured out it was a HPA? I'm sure this is going to come up from time to time and it'd be great if someone would take the doc PR and turn it into a FAQ entry. Thanks, Adrian O

Re: Another WTF moment

2012-12-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ada1: 76319MB (156301488 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada1: Previously was known as ad1 So, um, WTF? One ST380011A is 156299375 sectors big, and the other one is 156301488 big. How exactly does this happen? because this is how they report sector count. ask seagate why. ___

Re: Another WTF moment

2012-12-16 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <1355691233.1198.126.ca...@revolution.hippie.lan>, Ian Lepore wrote: >On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 12:01 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> So, um, WTF? One ST380011A is 156299375 sectors big, and the other one >> is 156301488 big. >> >> How exactly does this happen? > >Assuming the 3.0

Re: Another WTF moment

2012-12-16 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 16.12.2012 um 21:01 schrieb "Ronald F. Guilmette" : > ada0: ATA-6 device > ada1: ATA-6 device You might consider taking a closer look at the firmware versions… Achim ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Another WTF moment

2012-12-16 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 12:01 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > I have two Seagate ST380011A drives, both in the same single system. > > On that system, I boot to the FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 LiveCD. > > The resulting dmesg messages indicate the following regarding the two drives: > > ada0 at ata0 bus

Re: Another WTF moment

2012-12-16 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, Maybe manufacturing problem? Can you try the disks on another system and see if the problem persists? -- Best regards, Claudiu Vasadi ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscr

Another WTF moment

2012-12-16 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I have two Seagate ST380011A drives, both in the same single system. On that system, I boot to the FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 LiveCD. The resulting dmesg messages indicate the following regarding the two drives: ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 ada0: ATA-6 device ada0: 100.000MB/s transfers (UDM