[PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin thinks external HD is full but it isn't
Arthur
A-Koziol at neiu.edu
Sat Aug 7 11:28:37 PDT 2010
Jeff,
Well, it was worth a try. Sorry it didn't help though.
Arthur
>I updated the drive's firmware, but didn't see anything that would
>address this issue in any new BIOS updates, so I didn't change the BIOS.
>
>I disabled legacy mode and forced the USB drive to category "hard drive".
>
>Still same problem.
>
>--- On Fri, 8/6/10, Arthur Koziol <A-Koziol at neiu.edu> wrote:
>
>From: Arthur Koziol <A-Koziol at neiu.edu>
>Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin thinks external HD is full but it isn't
>To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing at lists.pcbsd.org>
>Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 11:13 AM
>
>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
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