On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:23:36PM -0500, Erik Osheim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently bought an extra hard drive for my NetBSD server (i386,
> NetBSD-1.6). The drive was 120 GB but got upped to 160 somehow (maybe they
> were out of stock; not important). Anyway, I remember hearing earlier that
> 160 GB drives and larger weren't (fully?) supported in NetBSD. However, I
> hoped that it would just get recognized as a smaller drive, and that would
> be that.
> 
> Instead, it did recognize it as a (149GB) drive, which I think is 160 GB
> when you account for industry inflation (1000MB vs 1024, etc). I figured I
> was lucky and support had been added.
> 
> However, I started getting soft-errors on reads and writes, and pretty
> soon those errors turned into unrecoverable errors. Worse, they were
> happening on my other drives' filesystems too, not just on the 160 GB.
> Pretty soon, /var was unusable and the machine had to be taken down.
> 
> Here is a sample of some of the errors that got introduced (from
> /var/log/messages):
> 
> Dec  1 01:16:55 cage /netbsd: pciide1:0:0: lost interrupt

pciide1 ... what controller is it ? 
1.6 should support such large drives, but not on all controllers.
You may want to try to upgrade the kernel to 1.6.2_RC2.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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