Hi Andries.
I have a qlogic scsi adapter and am trying to mount a 18GB drive. You
touch upon my problem in the HOWTO, Sect.10:
aha152x, pas16, ppa, qlogicfas, qlogicisp:
H=64, S=32 unless C > 1024, in which case H=255, S=63, C =
min(1023, M/(H*S)). (Thus C is truncated, and
H*S*C is not an approximation to the disk capacity M. This will
confuse most versions of fdisk.) The ppa.c code uses
M+1 instead of M and says that due to a bug in sd.c M is off by 1.
What I haven't found, is what to do. Am I just screwed?
Thanks,
Rudy Pawul
With an unpatched kernel, yes.
The patch below (which can be applied to all kernels (2.0.*, 2.2.*, 2.3.*)
will enable you to use more than 8 GB with a qlogic adapter.
Andries
--- qlogicfas.c~ Fri Feb 19 01:29:30 1999
+++ qlogicfas.c Thu Jul 1 16:08:51 1999
@@ -649,8 +649,10 @@
ip[0] = 0xff;
ip[1] = 0x3f;
ip[2] = disk->capacity / (ip[0] * ip[1]);
+#if 0
if (ip[2] > 1023)
ip[2] = 1023;
+#endif
}
return 0;
}
--- qlogicisp.c~ Fri Apr 23 04:30:08 1999
+++ qlogicisp.c Thu Jul 1 16:10:05 1999
@@ -1065,8 +1065,10 @@
ip[0] = 255;
ip[1] = 63;
ip[2] = size / (ip[0] * ip[1]);
+#if 0
if (ip[2] > 1023)
ip[2] = 1023;
+#endif
}
LEAVE("isp1020_biosparam");
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