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SubjectRe: external drive size differences
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On Sul, 2004-08-15 at 10:37, Nigel Kukard wrote:
> Something very very interesting... below is an external drive enclosure
> supporting both USB2 and Firwire, fitted with a 200Gb IDE Hdd.
>
> When plugged into the firewire bus, i get 137Gb size, when plugged into
> the usb bus, i get 200Gb size.
>
> Could this be a bug in the kernel? or external hardware?

Your firewire adapter doesn't support large drives I would suspect.
137Gb is the exact limit of a non LBA48 aware adapter.

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