Bug#260225: Sarge installer not recognising partition table for disk larger than 137GB

[Sara Falamaki <saraf@cse.unsw.edu.au>]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:15:36PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I don't know if this is relevant, but some IDE controllers only
> recognize the first 128 GB(binary) = 137*10^9 bytes.
> 
> Is it possible that your controller has two modes?  Windows uses one
> mode that recognizes the whole disk, and Linux uses the other
> (compatibility?) mode that only recognizes the first 137 GB(decimal)...?

Doubt it, as the problem doesn't seem to be recognising the whole
disk, 4 parts appear under /dev/discs/disc1/ as expected.  I was also
able to mount all the partitions in knoppix.  An error arises when
parted (or cfdisk) try to read the partition table, and die when
they think there is a partition after the end of the disk.

With parted -s /dev/discs/disc1/disc print I get the message:
       "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk"

With cfdisk, doing the same thing, I get: 

       "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition begins 
	   after end-of-disk"

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