dwguest@win.tue.nl wrote:
]
] Here the 'hdparm' outputs you have asked for:
]
] hdparm -I /dev/hda
] RawCHS=3121/16/63, CurCHS=3121/16/63, CurSects=3145968, LBA=yes,
LBAsects=15728688
]
] linux 2.0.36: hdparm -i /dev/hda
] RawCHS=3121/16/63, CurCHS=3121/16/63, CurSects=3145968, LBA=yes,
LBAsects=3145968
]
] linux 2.2.1: hdparm -i /dev/hda
] RawCHS=15603/16/63, CurCHS=3900/64/63, CurSects=15728688, LBA=yes,
LBAsects=15728688
]
]Very good. That makes it all clear.
]Yes, it was painful, it hurt the eye, to see the changes made
]to the geometry code by our new IDE maintainer. By now it is
]clear that every single change was buggy.
]
]Please remove the lines
]
] /*
] * This is a split test for drives less than 8 Gig only.
] * Drives less than 8GB sometimes declare that they have 15 heads.
] * This is an accounting trick (0-15) == (1-16), just an initial
] * zero point difference.
] */
] if ((id->lba_capacity < 16514064) && (lba_sects > chs_sects) &&
] ((id->heads == 15) || (id->heads == 16)) && (id->sectors == 63))
{
] if (id->heads == 15)
] id->cyls = lba_sects / (15 * 63); /* correct cyls */
] if (id->heads == 16)
] id->cyls = lba_sects / (16 * 63); /* correct cyls */
] return 1; /* lba_capacity is our only option */
] }
]
]from ide-disk.c, and report on whether this solves the size problem.
This solves the the size problem. See here the message log entries:
Jan 30 01:01:22 willem kernel: hda: SAMSUNG WNR-31601A (1600MB), 1536MB
w/256kB Cache, CHS=780/64/63
Jan 30 01:01:22 willem kernel: hdc: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX8.0AT, 7665MB w/69kB
Cache, CHS=15574/16/63, (U)DMA
Thanks,
Willem
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