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Re: Server upgrade - 128G disk limit!



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Hello,

On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Donald Lee wrote:

Following up, Michael is right, the on-board ATA controller does
support LBA48.  I have filled up some large disks with self-checking
pattern, and verified the data on disk.  It works fine.

It is a little odd that I can boot part-way with the Tempo
card, so some sort of OF drivers have to be on the card, but
they must make NetBSD unhappy.  I recall that for Mac OS 9, the
ATA cards "faked SCSI" in the OFW, but I don't remember details of
this.  The name of the ATA card in OFW is "Ultra-Tek133P+/sd", which
I believe is the shorthand for "SCSI Disk".

The Tempo card otherwise works fine with NetBSD, you just can't boot from it.

I think the problem is that NetBSD gets confused when trying to map the OF boot path to a kernel driver in order to figure out which one is its boot ( and therefore - usually - root ) device. Please post your ofctl -p output so someone can have a look and fix it.

have fun
Michael


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