Re: PROBLEM: wrong IDE disk size

[Andries Brouwer]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:45:35AM -0300, Alexandre wrote:

> I installed two new SAMSUNG SP1203N (120GB) drives on the same IDE.
> But, from the boot log:
> 
> hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
> hdc: host protected area => 1
> hdc: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=14596/255/63,
> UDMA(100)
> hdd: attached ide-disk driver.
> hdd: host protected area => 1
> hdd: setmax_ext LBA 234493056, native  66055248
> hdd: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4111/255/63, UDMA(100)
> 
> So the second one get its capacity limited to ~33GB.
> 
> I'm running kernel 2.4.25. CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE is off.

You may have set the jumpers on this second disk to limit capacity.

Correct jumper settings and/or try enabling CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE.
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