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Bug 158795

Summary:	HDIO_GETGEO returns zero for cylinder/sector/head on large (>2TB) disks.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Tom Coughlan <coughlan>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Mike Christie <mchristi>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	bdonahue, jturner
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Bug Blocks:	430698, 461304

Description Tom Coughlan 2005-05-25 20:08:25 UTC

From: 	Tom Coughlan <coughlan>
To: 	rhkernel-list
Subject: 	[RHEL 4 patch] fix disk geometry calculation for large disks
Date: 	Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:54:36 -0400	

Testing has shown that HDIO_GETGEO sometimes returns heads=0 for large disks.
This causes parted to die with a Floating Point Exception, and other possible
problems we have not seen yet.

The problem occurs because several routines in scsicam_bios_param castsector_t
capacity to unsigned long. The proposed solution is to avoid calling these
routines at all if the capacity exceeds 65535*63*255. These are the maximum
allowed values for cylinder/sector/head, so there is no point in going through
the whole routine to get to them. 
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The patch was posted upstream, but received no comments. It is in Fedora now for
testing. 

Adding to the proposed list for U2.

Comment 17 Jay Turner 2006-10-03 13:34:09 UTC

Deferring QE ack.  Doesn't appear that we're entirely sure we have a problem.

Comment 20 RHEL Program Management 2008-09-03 13:10:14 UTC

Updating PM score.

Comment 22 RHEL Program Management 2009-03-12 18:54:09 UTC

Since RHEL 4.8 External Beta has begun, and this bugzilla remains 
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or 
blocker.

Comment 23 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:16:21 UTC

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