Re: using 2 TB in real life

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:15:39 +0100 (MET)


> SCSI device sdb: -320126976 512-byte hdwr sectors (-163904 MB)

Yes, the code in 2.4.20 works up to 30 bits.
A slight modification works up to 31 bits.
[This is cosmetic only.]

Andries

--- /linux/2.4/linux-2.4.20/linux/drivers/scsi/sd.c Sat Aug 3 02:39:44 2002
+++ ./sd.c Fri Dec 13 00:12:00 2002
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@
*/
int m;
int hard_sector = sector_size;
- int sz = rscsi_disks[i].capacity * (hard_sector/256);
+ unsigned int sz = (rscsi_disks[i].capacity/2) * (hard_sector/256);

/* There are 16 minors allocated for each major device */
for (m = i << 4; m < ((i + 1) << 4); m++) {
@@ -1009,9 +1009,9 @@
}

printk("SCSI device %s: "
- "%d %d-byte hdwr sectors (%d MB)\n",
+ "%u %d-byte hdwr sectors (%d MB)\n",
nbuff, rscsi_disks[i].capacity,
- hard_sector, (sz/2 - sz/1250 + 974)/1950);
+ hard_sector, (sz - sz/625 + 974)/1950);
}

/* Rescale capacity to 512-byte units */
-
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