nwsp2 classic gpt support

[minibike12]

Edit.
Repartitioned with gdisk with the folowing partition table.
1 512.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
2 512.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
3 512.0 MiB 8200 Linux swap
4 4.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
5 768.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
6 8.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
7 512.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
8 1.5TiB 8300 Linux filesystem

Still Red/Blue light .....
Can't figure out why.
The original 1TB disk works fine.
Any idea's ?

[fvdw]

how does the protective MBR looks like ? (output of fdisk)

what do you exactly mean with the original 1 TB disk works fine ?

[minibike12]

Will post that tomorrow.
And the 1TB mbr drive (which originally came with the lacie with original firmware) still works like a charm.
So no problem there.

[minibike12]

gdisk -l /dev/sda

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ser@debian:~$ sudo su
root@debian:/home/user# gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): C0F97698-96B1-441D-9BDC-713E46ADE8DE
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2709013357 sectors (1.3 TiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            4096         1052671   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   2         1052672         2101247   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   3         2101248         3149823   512.0 MiB   8200  Linux swap
   4         3149824         3158015   4.0 MiB     8300  Linux filesystem
   5         3158016         4730879   768.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   6         4730880         4747263   8.0 MiB     8300  Linux filesystem
   7         4747264         5795839   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   8         5795840      3151523839   1.5 TiB     8300  Linux filesystem
root@debian:/home/user#


fdisk -l /dev/sda

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root@debian:/home/user# fdisk -l /dev/sda

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sda: 3000.6 GB, 3000592982016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364801 cylinders, total 5860533168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1  4294967295  2147483647+  ee  GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.


Oh, and i've used UIMAGE 59 you sent me.

Edit:
Formatted again, with a sector boundary of 2048 (default) instead of the 4096 i've used.
Tried UIMAGE 59 and 51.
Still no luck.
Maybe Uboot.bin does not work here with gpt?

[fvdw]

got me a 3 TB drive today and the problem seems to be that the u-boot ide subsystem reads the disk info incorrectly. it thinks the disk is only 746.5 GB...

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u-boot output

Marvell Serial ATA Adapter
Integrated Sata device found
[0 0 0]: Enable DMA mode
  Device 0 @ 0 0:
Model: WDC WD30EZRX-00DC0B0                     Firm: 80.00A80 Ser#:      WD-WMC                                         1T0347553
            Type: Hard Disk
            Supports 48-bit addressing
            Capacity: 764436.4 MB = 746.5 GB (1565565872 x 512)

But I can run it via a bypass.so it is realy still an u-boot issue, it seems not able to deal with the 4096 physical sector size.
Almost there...

[minibike12]

Hmm, did you get the same red/blue light flickering before your bypass?
An other question.
Do you think you are able to fix the 4096 sector size problem?

Oh and i do have exactly the same drive as you.
WDC WD30EZRX

[fvdw]

Hmm, did you get the same red/blue light flickering before your bypass?
An other question.
Do you think you are able to fix the 4096 sector size problem?

Oh and i do have exactly the same drive as you.
WDC WD30EZRX

yep red/blue flicker. I tries to load the kernel from wrong position. And I am optimistic that this problem can be fixed ;)

[minibike12]

Ah nice.
Problem here is that i bought the drive with multiple people.
And they want to know if it can be fixed before i can't return it anymore (saturday).

Anyhow, nice work so far, and keep it up!

[fvdw]

I am not sure that this can be solved before saturday

[fvdw]

First indication found were it goes wrong

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Marvell>> disk 0x800000 0:6
disk 0x800000 0:6
GPT: last_usable_lba incorrect: %lX > %lX
get_partition_info_efi: *** ERROR: Invalid GPT ***


It proves that it tries to use GPT
what it means and how to solve is something different :scratch :thinking

The message is generated by this part of the code

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   if (le64_to_int(pgpt_head->last_usable_lba) > lastlba) {
      printf("GPT: last_usable_lba incorrect: %llX > %llX\n",
         le64_to_int(pgpt_head->last_usable_lba), lastlba);
      return 0;
   }


But when reading the diskinfo in gdisk
you can see that last LBA > last_usable lba

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Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): BCCC1E49-2DBF-4FCF-9FE5-24DCA0013C87
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134
Partitions will be aligned on 4096-sector boundaries
Total free space is 4062 sectors (2.0 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            4096         1052671   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   2         1052672         2101247   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   3         2101248         3149823   512.0 MiB   8200  Linux swap
   4         3149824         3166207   8.0 MiB     8300  Linux filesystem
   5         3166208         4739071   768.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   6         4739072         4755455   8.0 MiB     8300  Linux filesystem
   7         4755456         5804031   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   8         5804032      5860533134   2.7 TiB     8300  Linux filesystem

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