Re: Larger than 8 gig IDE drives

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:44:42AM -0500, John Klos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Having just bought a 75 gig IDE drive, I'm curious about how I might use
> the whole capacity with NetBSD.
> 
> At the moment, I get the following:
> sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <IBM-DTLA, -307075, TXAO> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
> sd1: 8063 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 16514064 sectors
> 
> Now, I assume that I'd need an RDB on this disk that has a more
> appropriate geometry. Or is there any way that I could create a disklabel
> and filesystems that NetBSD will recognise later?

NetBSD/Amiga translates an RDB to the disklabel used by the kernel, so yes,
you need to create an RDB.

Uhm... wait... thats a IDE driver connected to A4000/A1200 ide port using
the old idesc hack? I'm not sure this works at all. using a 1.5 kernel with
the wdc driver might be better.

Regards,
        Ignatios