[PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin thinks external HD is full but it isn't

[Arthur Koziol]

Jeff,

I doubt it will make much difference but in your BIOS is there a setting 
called Enabled / Disable USB Legacy mode? In my years of experience with 
Dells, this option often made certain USB peripherals work / appear. And 
just out of curiosity, have you tried to see if there is perhaps a 
firmware update for your external drive? BIOS up to date too?

Arthur

> I reformatted the drive to UFS2 after I bought it.  It was formatted 
> for Windows - don't recall the file system.
>
> I have a thread at FBSD forums too, but no joy yet.
>
> Anyway, I have an internal 500GB HD that works fine.  Compare the two 
> Fdisk outputs for clues.  Something doesn't look right:
>
> ******* Working on device /dev/da0s1 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=121600 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
>
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=121600 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
>
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1;
>         end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Compared to a 500GB internal drive I also have:
>
> ******* Working on device /dev/ad7 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
>
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 63, size 976773105 (476939 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
>         end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> <UNUSED>
>
> --- On *Fri, 8/6/10, Kris Moore /<kris at pcbsd.org>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org>
>     Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin thinks external HD is full
>     but it isn't
>     To: testing at lists.pcbsd.org
>     Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 8:19 AM
>
>     On 08/05/2010 10:42, Jeff wrote:
>>     I removed all files from the drive and now it reports 1.2GB free.
>>
>>     # df -h shows:
>>
>>     Filesystem   Size    Used     Avail    Capacity  Mounted on
>>     /dev/da0s1   1.9G    635M    1.2G    35%         /media/disk
>>
>>     Yet Dolphin reports the drive size as 931.5 GiB which seems about
>>     right.
>>
>>     Sysinstall shows:
>>
>>     DISK Geometry:  121601 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 1953520065
>>     sectors (953867MB)
>>
>>     Offset                       Size(ST)             End            
>>        Name  PType       Desc      Subtype    Flags
>>
>>     0                              63                      62       
>>               -         12            unused    0
>>     63                            1953520002        1953520064   
>>     da0s1  8             freebsd      165
>>     1953520065              5103 1953525167                     -   
>>          12             unused        0
>>
>>     Anyone else have this problem?
>>
>
>     I've not run into this problem before... Your external disk drive
>     is formatted UFS though, right? Does FAT32 fare any better, since
>     that's what most of the external drives I've tested use?
>
>
>     -- 
>     Kris Moore
>     PC-BSD Software
>     iXsystems
>
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