From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759447AbZBMNd7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:33:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751594AbZBMNdw (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:33:52 -0500 Received: from zucker.schokokeks.org ([78.46.69.5]:37365 "EHLO zucker.schokokeks.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751232AbZBMNdv (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:33:51 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 301 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:33:51 EST From: Hanno =?utf-8?q?B=C3=B6ck?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:28:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1493311.AFTPuxRrYN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200902131428.40212.hanno@hboeck.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1493311.AFTPuxRrYN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I was about to shred some old hard drives. On one Hard drive, identified as: Conner Peripherals 240MB - CP30254 it was detected as 1.1 TB (!) and obviously throwing lots of errors after=20 getting over 240 MB. Is this issue worth investigating further? System is ubuntu 8.10. If anyone= =20 wants to have a deeper look, I can obviously donate that harddrive if you p= ay=20 me shipping costs. (Please reply to me personally, I'm not reading list-replies) cu, Hanno =2D-=20 Hanno B=C3=B6ck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/ GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber/Mail: hanno@hboeck.de --nextPart1493311.AFTPuxRrYN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkmVdYgACgkQr2QksT29OyBcZwCgmIY5kQLx9MWUXJDl/Qdkfu/G Vw0An18g8YiZkSj6Kz34qhnglNxe/JDF =WF4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1493311.AFTPuxRrYN--