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From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb
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> If you are using a 3Ware adapter, you will need to upgrade 
> the firmware to enable 48 bit lba.  Ditto other RAID controllers.

It's not on a raid controller.  The machine has a PIIX3 ide controller and a
AHA-2940UW scsi controller.  Both exibit the same problem.

> > | 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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