Trouble with drive size detection - 31MB visible size on 1TB drive.

[KOT MATPOCKuH]

2009/12/12 Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org>:
> To unlock drive permanently SET MAX ADDRESS ATA command should be used
> (probably the same as Linux uses) with Volatile bit set, to make it not
> restore on power cycle. I don't know how to send this command with
> legacy ata(4), you need some external tool.
Who knows this some external tool? :)
As I know hdparm is not ported to *BSD.

> With new CAM-based ATA
> probably it can be send via `camcontrol cmd ...`.
On this machine I'm using FreeBSD 7.x and have no ahci(4) support :(

I solved the problem by running "hdparm -N p1953525168 sdf" from linux
livecd, but this is not the fbsd way...

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