ibm x345 w/ serveraid-5i + freebsd ips driver dramas

[Nate Lawson]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Clive Lin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:00:46AM +1000, Andrew Snow wrote:
> > Problem 2: (the biggest problem)
> >
> > While the drive size is reported correctly, the geometry is wrong...
> > 472 cyls/254 heads/63 sectors = 7552944 sectors (3687MB) ?!
> >
> > When setting the BIOS to "non-extended" (2GB max) support mode, freebsd
> > then thinks this is the geometry:
> > 1846 cyls/128 heads/32 sectors = 7561216 sectors (3692MB).
> >
> > So I tested a few alternate geometries instead and even though there
> > were no error messages, it seemed to get reset to what FreeBSD was
> > reporting, no matter how many ways I tried to use the fdisk utility.
>
> Hi,
>
>     I have a quick fix for this problem.
>
> --- sys/dev/ips/ips_disk.c~~    Sun Sep 21 19:04:44 2003
> +++ sys/dev/ips/ips_disk.c      Sun Sep 21 20:29:18 2003
> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
>                 dsc->ipsd_disk.d_fwsectors = IPS_COMP_SECTORS;
>         }
>         dsc->ipsd_disk.d_sectorsize = IPS_BLKSIZE;
> -       dsc->ipsd_disk.d_mediasize = totalsectors * IPS_BLKSIZE;
> +       dsc->ipsd_disk.d_mediasize = (long long) totalsectors * IPS_BLKSIZE;
>         disk_create(dsc->unit, &dsc->ipsd_disk, 0, NULL, NULL);
>
>         device_printf(dev, "Logical Drive  (%dMB)\n",
>
>     The (long long) casting might not be suitable on other
> platform. It works for me on a dual XEON x225 box, which has a
> ServeRAID 5i.

Committed as off_t, thanks.

-Nate