On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:20:09AM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:49:20AM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
> >>Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hum, it may be another issue here: 268435392 is not the "magic" number.
> >>>And this drive seems to be an older revision, which shouldn't have the
> >>>problem.
> >>>
> >>>But this request is crossing the 128Gb barrier, this can be an issue
> >>>(and I would understand a drive bailing on this). Carl, can you try the
> >>>attached patch ?
> >>I would, except I already hacked at wd.c and added the ID for my
> >>drives for the LBA48 quirk, which seems to have worked.
> >
> >Yes, this work, but this is not what will be commited because it may
> >break things for others.
> 
> Understood.  The box is now almost ready for production use, and I
> don't want to break it, can I install your patch and then test
> easily without killing what I've installed on the machine? I can
> break the mirror by pulling out one of the drives if there's any
> risk?

Yes, either pull the drive out or mark it failed: raidctl -f /dev/wd1a raid0

I would test it myself, but I don't have drives larger than 128GB connected
to a plain IDE controller.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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