Fwd: Re: misc/166673: sade will not properly format 2TB disk (maybe other sizes as well)

[Brett E. Wynkoop]

The following reply was made to PR misc/166673; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Brett E. Wynkoop" <wynkoop at wynn.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, wynkoop at wynn.com
Cc:  
Subject: Fwd: Re: misc/166673: sade will not properly format 2TB disk (maybe other sizes as well)
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:54:47 -0400 (EDT)

 Greeting-
 
 Just attaching the comments by JKH to the PR.
 
 -Brett
 
 On 05/Apr/2012 12:42 Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh --AT-- freebsd.org> wrote ..
 > Hi Brett,
 > 
 > Yep, everything at Apple is going swimmingly (I see AAPL just hit $631 today -
 > no complaints! ;-) ).    I don't know much about sade, I'm afraid, the credit you
 > see apparently due to the fact that they took the code out of sysinstall (and,
 > now that I look at sade, I see that it does indeed appear to be pretty much the
 > very same code).  Given that, I would suspect one of two problems:
 > 
 > 1. Your geometry is not in fact correct.  You might try the suggested geometry,
 > or inspect the geometry under another OS (simply boot Linux or Windows off a thumb
 > drive and see how they report the drive geometry for a "2nd opinion") and try
 plugging
 > those numbers into sade, e.g. hit the "G" key in the Partition editor and manually
 > change them.
 > 
 > 2. You're hitting a bug in libdisk, which sade uses, possibly a 32 bit overflow
 > because they didn't have 2Tb disks when phk and I wrote the original code. :)
 > 
 > - Jordan
 
 
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