Re: Possible regression of LBA48 support for piix

[Jeff Garzik]

On 12/17/2009 07:07 AM, Romain Kubany wrote:
> Here it is under the 2.6.28 :
>
> # hdparm -I /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
>
> ATA device, with non-removable media
>          Model Number:       Virtual HD
>          Serial Number:
>          Firmware Revision:  1.1.0
> Standards:
>          Likely used: 2
> Configuration:
>          Logical         max     current
>          cylinders       16383   65535
>          heads           16      16
>          sectors/track   63      255
>          --
>          bytes/track: 65024      bytes/sector: 512
>          CHS current addressable sectors:  267382800
>          LBA    user addressable sectors:  267382800
>          device size with M = 1024*1024:      130558 MBytes
>          device size with M = 1000*1000:      136899 MBytes (136 GB)

Yeah, that info is straight from the virtual disk, without any sort of 
massaging.  The disk is reporting 136GB max, so I would poke around 
Windows to see if a setting changed somewhere...  maybe there is an "old 
IDE compatible" setting that got turned on, for the virtual hd?

	Jeff



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