Soren S. Jorvang wrote:

> 16383 is right for disks that large (yay, ATA!). It means 'you
> need LBA to access the rest' (which shouldn't be a problem for
> NetBSD).

hmmmm, I see
 
> That crash when running fdisk looks straight-forward though.
> 
> > Stopped at      0x80123cb8:     lw      v0,392(s2)
> 
> Unfortunately, we don't have DDB symbols yet on cobalt.
> 
> Do you have the kernel running when you got the panic still?
> Would be interesting to see in which function it happens.

sorry?  I don't understand what you're asking.  I can panic the kernel at
will still (woo) using fdisk.  If you want me to do some debugging for you
I'd be happy to (hell, its only my secondary nameserver ;-)) but I'll need
some hand holding, I'm new to NetBSD.

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