Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: external drive size differences | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:59:20 +0100 |
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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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