Re: using 2 TB in real life

Anders Henke (anders.henke@sysiphus.de)
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:43:17 +0100

On December 13th 2002, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > 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.

It works up to less than 30 bits - a 0.9 TB Device shows up as

SCSI device sdb: 1806745600 512-byte hdwr sectors (-174457 MB)

while a 480 GB Device (correctly) shows up this way:

SCSI device sda: 961818624 512-byte hdwr sectors (492451 MB)

At 0.5 TB (29 bits) the first problem occurs: negative size.
At 1 T (30 bits), the sector count also becomes negative.

Your patch (thank you!) does fix both problems and up to 1.9 TB,
everything works as expected:

SCSI device sdb: 3974840320 512-byte hdwr sectors (2035118 MB)

Yes, it's purely cosmetical, but should be included in the main tree.

Regards,

Anders

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