Hi,
On 26/12/2006, at 4:11 PM, Merp.com Volunteer wrote:
Strange problem here, seems only to show up under OpenBSD 4.0 so
far (verified
not a noticeable problem under Gentoo Linux 2006.1 or Suse Linux
10.1):
2 brand new SATA2 Seagate 320 GB hard drives, completely wiped/
unpartitioned.
wd0 reports correctly as:
total sectors = 625142448
total free sectors = 625142448
BUT wd1 reports incorrectly as:
total free sectors = 16514001
That is a fraction of the drive.
I tried re-wiping, partitioning, etc. to no avail.
I sometimes see this sort of behaviour on freshly zeroed drives on my
systems.
Within disklabel, I use "D" to set default values and then "b" to set
the OpenBSD disk boundaries. Since I dedicate drives for OpenBSD,
that's from the beginning, to the end "*".
This has always fixed that problem for me.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
