From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Carlos Pardo <Carlos.Pardo@siliconimage.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Edward Falk <efalk@google.com>
Subject: Re: > 2TB storage
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:48:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <435D0268.7060907@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2E9B8131C44AF746B1E06BF9B15A434B088E37B7@mail.siliconimage.com>
Carlos Pardo wrote:
> To everyone,
>
> Has anyone tested libATA drivers using disks bigger than 2 Terabytes? I just attached what is
> essentially a 2.2 TB disk drive to a Silicon Image 3114 chipset. It reported around 300 Megabytes
> instead of the expected 2200 Megabytes. How is the disk geometry determined ? Is it done by
> reading the IDENTIFY data or by accessing the BIOS ? Thanks in advance for any feedback.
We read IDENTIFY DEVICE data directly, and use that...
Make sure you have CONFIG_LBD turned on, as Randy mentioned. There may
be other factors at play here too that I'm not seeing...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-24 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-24 15:35 > 2TB storage Carlos Pardo
2005-10-24 15:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-24 15:48 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-10-24 15:53 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-24 16:43 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
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2005-10-24 16:09 Carlos Pardo
2005-10-24 16:19 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-24 17:11 Carlos Pardo
2005-10-24 17:18 Carlos Pardo
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