From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Behnert Subject: 2.4.21-pre7, disk size, display wrong or serious bug? Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 02:52:00 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E8F7A30.9050608@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.65.60]:27107 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262741AbTDFAkk (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:40:40 -0500 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Yesterday I installed an external RAID system, machine was running kernel 2.2.20 and everything worked ok: ~snip~ SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors=1278558208 [624296 MB] [624.3 GB] ~snip~ Then I compiled 2.4.21-pre7 using the old sym53c8xx driver: ~snip~ SCSI device sdb: 1278558208 512-byte hdwr sectors (-444889 MB) ~snip~ and then again using the new sym53c8xx-2 driver: ~snip~ SCSI device sdb: 1278558208 512-byte hdwr sectors (-444889 MB) ~snip~ The system *seems* to work ok but I don't know if it really *does* - I didn't want to experiment very much because the RAID array contains sensitive data and pulling the files back from tape takes forever. Unfortunately kernel 2.4.x will become a must in the near future for this system ... Is it just the display of the value that is wrong or is this something I should really worry about? I don't want to flood this list so I put complete dmesg output for all three kernel variants on a website in case somebody want's to have a look at it: http://www.schachtziege.de/sym53c8xx.html Thank you, Regards, Andreas