200GB EIDE disk problem

To have the posibility to use the whole 200GB disk capacity I used option
-o"devb-eide, eide master=lba48" in boot image script file.

There are two partions on the disk created: 20GB for system and 180GB for
data.

Problem:

An attempt to reinstall QNX on the system partition from QNX CD results in
devb-eide crash.
Probably devb-eide is not able to survive partition over 130GB limit when
started without the params.

Jiri Kristek
RETIA, a.s.

This is the result of reinstalation attempt:

Restarting driver and mounting filesystems…

DINIT: can’t open drive ‘/dev/hd0t79’ : No such file or directory

/qnxbase/safe-config/x86/bin.dinit -hq /dev/hd0t79: failed (12292 256)

Partition instalation aborted!

Please remove the install floppy and CD , then reboot your machine.



“Jiøí Kristek” <jkristek@retia.cz> pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku
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To have the posibility to use the whole 200GB disk capacity I used option
-o"devb-eide, eide master=lba48" in boot image script file.

There are two partions on the disk created: 20GB for system and 180GB for
data.

Problem:

An attempt to reinstall QNX on the system partition from QNX CD results in
devb-eide crash.
Probably devb-eide is not able to survive partition over 130GB limit when
started without the params.

Jiri Kristek
RETIA, a.s.

"Ji Kristek <jkristek@retia.cz> wrote:

To have the posibility to use the whole 200GB disk capacity I used option
-o"devb-eide, eide master=lba48" in boot image script file.

There are two partions on the disk created: 20GB for system and 180GB for
data.

Problem:

An attempt to reinstall QNX on the system partition from QNX CD results in
devb-eide crash.

Probably devb-eide is not able to survive partition over 130GB limit when
started without the params.

The driver isn’t crashing. io-blk isn’t enumerating the partitions because
they are larger than the capacity reported by the driver. I will change
the driver default of lba48 off for the next release. In the interm you
can either create a boot floppy with the lba48 option or keep the partition
below 137G.

Thanks.

“Kevin Chiles” <kchiles@qnx.com> pí¹e v diskusním pøíspìvku
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“Ji Kristek <> jkristek@retia.cz> > wrote:
To have the posibility to use the whole 200GB disk capacity I used
option
-o"devb-eide, eide master=lba48” in boot image script file.

There are two partions on the disk created: 20GB for system and 180GB
for
data.

Problem:

An attempt to reinstall QNX on the system partition from QNX CD results
in
devb-eide crash.

Probably devb-eide is not able to survive partition over 130GB limit
when
started without the params.

The driver isn’t crashing. io-blk isn’t enumerating the partitions
because
they are larger than the capacity reported by the driver. I will change
the driver default of lba48 off for the next release. In the interm you
can either create a boot floppy with the lba48 option or keep the
partition
below 137G.