Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-22 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Nick Holland wrote: > > Dammit. The plan was for wd(4) to die before disks got that big. Sigh. > > ok, let's see if I got this right... > that's not a >2TB disk issue, that's a 4k issue, Right. > so this could potentially bite people with smaller disks that > were also 4k sectored? Yes, but I

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread David Diggles
I would be happy to test it out. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 04:40:20PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM, David Diggles wrote: > > That is my plan b for down the track. ?I will live with it on USB for now. > > > > Pretty happy with this new Atom so far, on the whole. >

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/21/12 18:02, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:26:23AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:54:55PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> > It seems the lba48 capacity values being pulled out aren't sane >> > for whatever reason. >> > >> > Can you try swi

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Geoff Steckel
On 06/21/2012 06:03 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:26:23AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:54:55PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: It seems the lba48 capacity values being pulled out aren't sane for whatever reason. Can you try switch the controll

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:26:23AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:54:55PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > It seems the lba48 capacity values being pulled out aren't sane > > for whatever reason. > > > > Can you try switch the controller into ahci mode via the bios? > > L

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread David Diggles
That is my plan b for down the track. I will live with it on USB for now. Pretty happy with this new Atom so far, on the whole. It had a noticable performance improvement after switching from amd64 to i386. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 04:13:15PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012-06-21, David

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-06-21, David Diggles wrote: > Oh ok, then I am out of luck on this. > This BIOS does not have an ahci mode for sata. plug-in sili(4)?

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread David Diggles
Oh ok, then I am out of luck on this. This BIOS does not have an ahci mode for sata. Thanks for the info. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:26:23AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:54:55PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > It seems the lba48 capacity values being pulled out aren't

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:54:55PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > It seems the lba48 capacity values being pulled out aren't sane > for whatever reason. > > Can you try switch the controller into ahci mode via the bios? Looking at this again, it seems there is no support for 4k sectors with wd(4)

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Jonathan Gray
It seems the lba48 capacity values being pulled out aren't sane for whatever reason. Can you try switch the controller into ahci mode via the bios?

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:27 PM, David Diggles wrote: > I have not tried this with the a latest snapshot, or with i386 yet. > > Should I? > Test with a newer snapshot? Yes. -- chs,

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:27 PM, David Diggles wrote: > I have not tried this with the a latest snapshot, or with i386 yet. > > Should I? Sure http://www.openbsd.org/report.html > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:52:41PM +1000, David Diggles wrote: > [SNIP] >> As a USB device ... > > Oops, t

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread David Diggles
I have not tried this with the a latest snapshot, or with i386 yet. Should I? On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:52:41PM +1000, David Diggles wrote: [SNIP] > As a USB device ... Oops, this is the SATA. > root@tara:log:0# disklabel wd0 > # /dev/rwd0c: > type: SCSI > disk: SCSI disk > label: Desk

Re: "Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:52 PM, David Diggles wrote: > OpenBSD 5.1 (GENERIC.MP) #207: Sun Feb 12 09:42:14 MST 2012 Have you tried with a newer snapshot? -- chs,

"Seagate Expansion" 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread David Diggles
Could this USB disk have been crippled by Seagate to not work as a SATA device? The disk I am trying to mount is pulled out of an external "Seagate Expansion" USB drive, PN 9SE2N9-500, and plugged directly into the SATA on an motherboard. I have a single ffs2 2.8T partition. It works and mounts