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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu limited to 11GB
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:34:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B2F262.1070309@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412050322260.921@horsea.3ti.be>

You should use the CVS version and read its documentation about the 
'-hdachs' option. '-hdachs' gives the physical HDD geometry which is has 
the following maximum parameters: 16383,16,63. You can also try to force 
the use of the LBA translation.

Fabrice.

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:32:42PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>When I try to use a 80GB disk with qemu, the BIOS (and underlying os) 
>>>reports it as a 10GB disk. I've tried providing the CHS values using 
>>>-hdachs, but it does not work either.
>>>
>>>	qemu -hdachs "155061,16,63" -hda /dev/hda
>>
>>115061 % 65536 = 23989
>>
>>23989*16*63*512/1024^3 = 11
>>
>>try using 255/256 heads instead of the 16 heads ...
> 
> 
> No use, I already tried that. It really seems to me that there's a limit 
> in qemu.
> 
> --   dag wieers,  dag@wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-05 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-04 11:32 [Qemu-devel] Qemu limited to 11GB Dag Wieers
2004-12-04 14:50 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-12-05  2:23   ` Dag Wieers
2004-12-05 11:34     ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]

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