Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu limited to 11GB

[Fabrice Bellard]

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.
>
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