Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756652Ab0HDI1Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 04:27:24 -0400 Received: from clegg.madduck.net ([193.242.105.96]:58717 "EHLO clegg.madduck.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753479Ab0HDI1V (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 04:27:21 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 454 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:27:20 EDT Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:19:34 +0200 From: martin f krafft To: linux kernel mailing list Cc: Penelope Christine Leach Subject: Failing to read drive: "Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16)" Message-ID: <20100804081934.GA9185@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> Mail-Followup-To: linux kernel mailing list , Penelope Christine Leach MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-ripemd160; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline X-Motto: Keep the good times rollin' X-OS: Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid kernel 2.6.33-2-amd64 x86_64 X-Spamtrap: madduck.bogus@madduck.net X-Subliminal-Message: debian/rules! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2187 Lines: 62 --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear kernel people, We are trying to access the harddrive of a decomissioned laptop. It's a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 320Gb SATA drive (WD3200BEVT=B9, 625,142,448 sectors). When we attach it via USB, however, the kernel fails to read its size and assumes it's 2**32 blocks long (2 TiB): kernel: [ 2466.318829] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access = PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS kernel: [ 2466.319359] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0 kernel: [ 2466.323641] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdh] Very big device. Trying to use REA= D CAPACITY(16). kernel: [ 2466.325387] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdh] Using 0xffffffff as device size kernel: [ 2466.325395] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdh] 4294967296 512-byte logical blocks= : (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB) kernel: [ 2466.326060] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off kernel: [ 2466.326063] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00 kernel: [ 2466.326066] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through kernel: [ 2466.333816] sdh: unknown partition table kernel: [ 2466.360579] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI disk If we attach it directly to the SATA bus, it is not detected. Is there anything we can do, or is this drive simply lost? =B9) http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=3D377 --=20 martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ =20 who's general failure, and why's he reading my disk? =20 spamtraps: madduck.bogus@madduck.net --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="digital_signature_gpg.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkxZIpIACgkQIgvIgzMMSnX9LwCghvAVPnUJ5FSdD0M0m1pb2X14 SdUAoNRh8gmPdaw0CUlBZNBV8lMAMYRS =Aj4J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6-- -- 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/