From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: external drive size differences
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:59:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092571159.17605.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040815093759.GK31901@lbsd.net>
On Sul, 2004-08-15 at 10:37, Nigel Kukard wrote:
> Something very very interesting... below is an external drive enclosure
> supporting both USB2 and Firwire, fitted with a 200Gb IDE Hdd.
>
> When plugged into the firewire bus, i get 137Gb size, when plugged into
> the usb bus, i get 200Gb size.
>
> Could this be a bug in the kernel? or external hardware?
Your firewire adapter doesn't support large drives I would suspect.
137Gb is the exact limit of a non LBA48 aware adapter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-15 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-15 9:37 external drive size differences Nigel Kukard
2004-08-15 11:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-15 14:07 ` Nigel Kukard
2004-08-15 13:07 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-15 14:26 ` Nigel Kukard
2004-08-17 18:37 ` Brian Jackson
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