From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: KERN_NOTICE very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:19:47 -0500 Message-ID: <45929D23.1040606@torque.net> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41752 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932989AbWL0QUR (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:20:17 -0500 Received: from ip-124.56.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.56.124] helo=[192.168.48.80]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1GzbVo-00066Q-8L for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:20:16 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org This message is generated by sd when a disk is larger than 2 TB. Does it need to be? Could it be a logging message? It is also badly worded as the imperative "try" suggests that the user needs to find a utility that sends a READ CAPACITY(16). And I was recently contacted by a user with that in mind. Doug Gilbert