Re: problem with a device >2TB

[christian gattermair <christian.gattermair@mci.edu>]

thanks for your answer and tip

i get the following message:

cfdisk -z /dev/sdb

FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size
Press any key to exit cfdisk    

any other ideas or tip's?

thanks,

christian

Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 21:21 schrieb Anders Breindahl:
> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 09:52, christian gattermair wrote:
> > i use debian sarge with 2.6.8-2-686-smp and like to use an raid device
> > (sda) with 3 TB.
> >
> > i have read in the internet and found that there is an kernel feature
> > called LBD. it is activated
> >
> > cfdisk /dev/sda
> > FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size
> >
> > fdisk /dev/sda
> > You must set cylinders.
> > You can do this from the extra functions menu.
> > Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
> > w(rite)
>
> - snip -
>
> > kernel: sda : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> > kernel: SCSI device sda: 6445080576 512-byte hdwr sectors (3299881 MB)
> > kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back, no read (daft)
> > kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p
> >
> > thx 4 any hint or tip
>
> It is only a vague hint, but if you're unafraid to loose data on the
> device, you could try repartitioning the disk with cfdisk's ``-z''-option.
> This will start cfdisk with an empty partition table, and thereby hopfully
> working around cfdisk's inability to detect the size of the disk.
>
> If you dare, how are the results?
> Regards, Anders Breindahl.