From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: "Hanno Böck" <hanno@hboeck.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:34:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <499584FC.2050104@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902131428.40212.hanno@hboeck.de>
(ccing linux-ide)
Hanno Böck wrote:
> I was about to shred some old hard drives. On one Hard drive, identified as:
> Conner Peripherals 240MB - CP30254
>
> it was detected as 1.1 TB (!) and obviously throwing lots of errors after
> getting over 240 MB.
>
> Is this issue worth investigating further? System is ubuntu 8.10. If anyone
> wants to have a deeper look, I can obviously donate that harddrive if you pay
> me shipping costs.
That would be worth investigating, yes.. If you can provide the dmesg
output from bootup, as well as the output of hdparm --Istdout on the
disk device, that would be useful..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 13:28 Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB Hanno Böck
2009-02-13 14:34 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-02-14 12:52 ` Hanno Böck
2009-02-14 13:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-14 14:25 ` Mark Lord
2009-02-14 15:31 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-02-14 15:54 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-14 22:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-02-14 17:58 ` Robert Hancock
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