Re: ST31000340NS (1000G) Capacity equal 33MB issue.

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Richard Liu wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
>      I bought a Seagate ES.2 ST31000340NS (1000GB) and run at Gentoo
> Linux kernel 2.6.24.
> But Linux kernel report the disk size only 33MB.
> I tried Intel ICH5 and Sil3112, but get the same result.
> 
> I don't know this issue was caused by libsata or scsi layer .
..
> hdparm
>  ==
> hdparm -i /dev/sdc
> 
> /dev/sdc:
> 
>  Model=ST31000340NS                            , FwRev=SN04    ,
> SerialNo=            9QJ09BJ4
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
>   RawCHS=64/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
>  BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
>  CurCHS=64/16/63, CurSects=64512, LBA=yes, LBAsects=65134
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>   PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
>  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
>  AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2:  ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6
> 
>  * signifies the current active mode
..

Nothing wrong there, but I would really like/prefer to see the output from:

    hdparm --Istdout /dev/sdc


thanks.