Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261745AbUDCOUp (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:20:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261763AbUDCOUp (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:20:45 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:48852 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261745AbUDCOUl (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:20:41 -0500 X-Authenticated: #294883 Message-ID: <406EC833.4080909@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 16:20:35 +0200 From: Hans-Georg Esser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.20 and 2.4.21, Firewire, 160 GB Harddisk, 134 GB barrier X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4020 Lines: 94 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, I found an earlier thread ("KERNEL 2.6.3 and MAXTOR 160 GB", March 2004) dealing with a 137 GB barrier (that I guess meant: 137xxx MB) for a Maxtor 160 GB drive in Kernel 2.6.x. I'd like to add my personal observation to that (for Kernel 2.4.20/21): My drive (Western Digital WD1600BB-32DWA0) works well when directly connected to the IDE controller, but doesn't like using an external firewire connection ("Pyro 1394 Drive Kit" of Adstech.com). The firewire stuff worked well with an 80 GB disk, but with the 160 GB disk I'm only getting 134 GB (or 137439 MB). This may be related to the other post I mentioned, cause of the same "barrier" number. I haven't tried a newer kernel yet, this was with the standard kernel that came with the distro: # uname -a Linux server 2.4.21-99-default #1 Wed Sep 24 13:30:51 UTC 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # lspci -v 03:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) ~ Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller ~ Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 ~ Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] ~ I/O ports at 9800 [size=128] ~ Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Is this a known problem of the 2.4.x line and should I move to 2.6 to make it go away? (A test with a 2.4.20 kernel gave the same results, minus the "non-standard ROM format" stuff.) Following snippet shows what is being logged when connecting the external drive. Thanks, Hans-Georg Apr 3 13:19:46 server kernel: ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023 has non-standard ROM format (0 quads), cannot parse Apr 3 13:19:57 server kernel: ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0008b502000500c8] Apr 3 13:20:02 server kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1018 $ Ben Collins Apr 3 13:20:02 server kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices Apr 3 13:20:02 server kernel: blk: queue d137fa14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - - Max payload [2048] Apr 3 13:20:03 server insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.21-99-default/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o Apr 3 13:20:03 server insmod: Symbol version prefix '' Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 0 0 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: Vendor: WDC WD16 Model: 00BB-32DWA0 Rev: Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: blk: queue d137f414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: SCSI device sda: 268435455 512-byte hdwr sectors (137439 MB) Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 1 0 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 2 0 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 3 0 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 4 0 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 5 0 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 6 0 Apr 3 13:20:03 server kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 7 0 - -- Hans-Georg E?er - http://privat.hgesser.com - Tel. 089 99248380 GPG Fingerprint: F319 10C0 76E2 DAAD DDFA F017 4CAD BB99 A4A9 9E53 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAbsgzTK27maSpnlMRAnD+AJ9muCgK3T/LIxoeZGL6V8a4L6/C6wCeOpEP WXsRyQEg+H+udDiOOT30atM= =SfzQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/