Fwd: Re: misc/166673: sade will not properly format 2TB disk (maybe
other sizes as well)
Brett E. Wynkoop
wynkoop at wynn.com
Thu Apr 5 17:00:35 UTC 2012
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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