Bug 55364 - Kernel misreports capacity of large SCSI devices
Summary: Kernel misreports capacity of large SCSI devices
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-30 12:11 UTC by Per Steinar Iversen
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-11-04 22:22:14 UTC
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Description Per Steinar Iversen 2001-10-30 12:11:27 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The kernel misreports the capacity of large scsi devices during boot

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attach large scsi device
2.Boot linux
3.Examine dmesg output
	

Actual Results:  A large SCSI array is reported like this:

SCSI device sde: 1367186688 512-byte hdwr sectors (-399511 MB)

Presumably an overflow of some sort in the kernel.

Expected Results:  SCSI device sde: 1367186688 512-byte hdwr sectors
(73407865 MB)

or something similar.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-11-04 22:22:09 UTC 
Linux is currently limited to 1Tb device size..... We're working on improving
that but it will take time.
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