From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:34:36 -0600 Message-ID: <499584FC.2050104@gmail.com> References: <200902131428.40212.hanno@hboeck.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.28]:16915 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751546AbZBMOem (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:34:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200902131428.40212.hanno@hboeck.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?SGFubm8gQsO2Y2s=?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ide (ccing linux-ide) Hanno B=C3=B6ck wrote: > I was about to shred some old hard drives. On one Hard drive, identif= ied as: > Conner Peripherals 240MB - CP30254 >=20 > it was detected as 1.1 TB (!) and obviously throwing lots of errors a= fter=20 > getting over 240 MB. >=20 > Is this issue worth investigating further? System is ubuntu 8.10. If = anyone=20 > wants to have a deeper look, I can obviously donate that harddrive if= you pay=20 > me shipping costs. That would be worth investigating, yes.. If you can provide the dmesg=20 output from bootup, as well as the output of hdparm --Istdout on the=20 disk device, that would be useful..