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Manuel,

> I have a SATA SSD which suddenly reports its size as 2.2TB, 0xFFFFFFFF
> block count:

"Suddenly" as in out of the blue? Or after a drive firmware update? Or a
kernel ditto?

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering