From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:34:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020426163445.A16100@vger.timpanogas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020426171836.A3160@animx.eu.org> <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0204261416040.14014-100000@dragon.pdx.osdl.net>
If you are using a 3Ware adapter, you will need to upgrade
the firmware to enable 48 bit lba. Ditto other RAID controllers.
Jeff
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:17:53PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Wakko Warner wrote:
>
> | Just bought a maxtor 160gb disk and it shows upt as a 137gb disk. I thought
> | this might be the system board's ide chipset limitation so I put a scsi->ide
> | adapter on the drive. Same situation occurs. I'm looking at what the kernel
> | reports when it finds the drive. /proc/partitions shows this drive as:
> | 8 0 134217727 sda
> | /proc/scsi/scsi shows:
> | Attached devices:
> | Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> | Vendor: Maxtor 4 Model: G160J8 Rev: GAK8
> | Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> |
> | I tried kernel 2.4.14 and 2.4.18. Any ideas?
>
> Hi,
>
> There was a thread on this 2-3 months back.
> IDE in 2.4 doesn't have a 48-bit block address interface IIRC,
> although Andre has some patches for this.
> This is necessary to go above 137 GB.
>
> --
> ~Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-26 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-26 21:18 Wakko Warner
2002-04-26 21:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-04-26 21:34 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-26 23:35 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2002-04-26 23:34 ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2002-04-26 23:30 ` Wakko Warner
2002-04-26 21:43 ` Andre Hedrick
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