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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prev parent 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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