From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754182AbZBNWf3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:35:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752231AbZBNWfU (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:35:20 -0500 Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org ([213.58.128.207]:36094 "EHLO ftp.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751417AbZBNWfT (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:35:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:35:18 +0000 (GMT) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Sergei Shtylyov cc: Mark Lord , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Hanno_B=F6ck?= , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ide Subject: Re: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB In-Reply-To: <4996E924.3060600@ru.mvista.com> Message-ID: References: <200902131428.40212.hanno@hboeck.de> <499584FC.2050104@gmail.com> <200902141352.24277.hanno@hboeck.de> <4996C563.9090900@ru.mvista.com> <4996D443.4060103@rtr.ca> <4996E924.3060600@ru.mvista.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sergei, > > not explicit about how words 57 and 58 were meant to be ordered and some > > manufacturers interpreted it one and some the other way. > > However, the drive vendors should've really thought better before reporting > capacity in *middle-endian* format. :-) Oh, come on! Don't accuse everyone of thinking. Besides, someone had to try that reverse-pdp-endian mode, didn't they? ;) Maciej