Re: Maximum disk size on a Shark

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56:24PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Dec 12, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know if there's a limit on the size of disk that the shark
> > firmware can support?
> 
> Not really, but I doubt that it supports things like LBA.
> 
> > I recently bought a 80G laptop drive to put in it, but the firmware
> > doesn't seem to be able to see it, and NetBSD install kernel can't  
> > find
> > it either (I think it just asks the OFW code).
> 
> The biggest disk I ever stuck in a shark is a 6GB Toshiba which worked  
> just fine. I'd suspect the sharks limit around 8GB.

Most certainly not... this message is typed and will be sent out from
a Shark running 4.0.1, with this disk:

wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <SAMSUNG HM060HC>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 57241 MB, 116301 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 117231408 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs

(how again does one find out what mode the driver actually uses to access
the disk?)

Regards,
        -is