unable to access disk block number > 2^32

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Dec 30 11:28:00 PST 2004


On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:48:22PM +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've acquired a 5-Terabyte SCSI RAID disk that I seem to be unable
> to use satisfactorily under FreeBSD. It's most likely a FreeBSD
> problem because a Linux 2.6/Knoppix CD on this machine is able to
> access the disk nicely.

You failed to mention which version of FreeBSD you are using.  If you
want to access more then 2TB of a disk, you must be running FreeBSD 5,
preferably 5.3.  If you are running 5.3, we're probably looking at a
bug since we're supposed to support such disks.

-- Brooks

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