Re: Linux doesn't support bigger than 2TB IEEE-1394 disk

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> do you know of a specific series of SBP-2 firmwares which do 
> actually support READ CAPACITY (16) properly but are treated by Linux as 
> if they wouldn't?  If so, we could add a workaround to our drivers to 
> treat them like recent SBC implementations.  We would have to match 
> against their firmware_revision field which you get logged in dmesg if 
> you load the sbp2 or firewire-sbp2 driver with the module parameter 
> workarounds=0x1000.

PS:

# modprobe -r sbp2
# modprobe sbp2 workarounds=0x1000
(plug the disk in, wait 5 or 10 seconds or so)
# dmesg

Use firewire-sbp2 instead of sbp2 if your distribution already uses the 
newer firewire drivers which are alternatively available in recent 
kernel versions.  E.g. on Fedora.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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