Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

[Bo Xiao]

   Installation on another box, also with 5.4R, went well. So it must be
   this particular Dell PowerEdge 750. After moving the disk back,

   % sudo newfs /dev/ad3s1d
   newfs: /dev/ad3s1d: failed to open disk for writing
   % sudo mount /dev/ad3s1d /mnt/a
   mount: /dev/ad3s1d: Operation not permitted
   %

   But dmesg gives right info so not likely the bios.
   Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
   ad2: 76293MB <Maxtor 6Y080M0/YAR51HW0> [155009/16/63] at ata1-master
   SATA150
   ad3: 286168MB <ST3300831AS/3.02> [581421/16/63] at ata1-slave SATA150
   Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a
   em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex

   Bo Xiao

   >From: Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu>
   >Reply-To: Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu>
   >To: Glenn Dawson <glenn at antimatter.net>, Bo Xiao
   <boxiao63 at hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
   >Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?
   >Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:35:35 -0500
   >
   >--On August 14, 2005 1:36:42 PM -0700 Glenn Dawson
   ><glenn at antimatter.net> wrote:
   >
   >>At 10:11 PM 8/13/2005, Bo Xiao wrote:
   >>
   >>>   Hi,
   >>>
   >>>   Having trouble install a 300G SATA with 5.4 release. HW is Dell
   >>>   PowerEdge. First disk
   >>>   is a 80G SATA. All is good. When adding the 300G, sysinstall
   >>>cant
   >>>   understand the
   >>>   geom, 581421/16/63. It thinks it is 36481/255/63. Cant write to
   >>>the
   >>>   disk. Even if I
   >>>   use G to tell it, it still wont take it.
   >>
   >>Both of those geometries specify about the same amount of space,
   >>although
   >>the second one will be a tiny bit smaller, but when you have 300G
   >>acouple
   >>of missing kbytes is no big deal.
   >>
   >I missed the original post, but I'm running a Dell box with 2 300GB
   >SATA drives on it, and I had no problems during the install.
   >
   >Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
   >Adjunct Information Security Officer
   >University of Texas at Dallas
   >AVIEN Founding Member
   >http://www.utdallas.edu/