Re: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB

[Robert Hancock]

(ccing linux-ide)

Hanno BÃck wrote:
> I was about to shred some old hard drives. On one Hard drive, identified as:
> Conner Peripherals 240MB - CP30254
>
> it was detected as 1.1 TB (!) and obviously throwing lots of errors after 
> getting over 240 MB.
>
> Is this issue worth investigating further? System is ubuntu 8.10. If anyone 
> wants to have a deeper look, I can obviously donate that harddrive if you pay 
> me shipping costs.

That would be worth investigating, yes.. If you can provide the dmesg 
output from bootup, as well as the output of hdparm --Istdout on the 
disk device, that would be useful..
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