Re: Cosmetic error: 2.4.20 bootup and >2^31 sector SCSI devices
From: Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap_at_osdl.org)
Date: 09/30/03
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:39:04 -0700 To: david@luyer.net
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:20:22 +1000 david@luyer.net wrote:
| This looks like it's using some signed numbers that should be unsigned:
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| SCSI device sdc: -876998784 512-byte hdwr sectors (-449022 MB)
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| However all the tools (mkfs etc) work correctly and work out the correct
| drive size (~1.75Tb):
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| /dev/sdc 1.7T 465G 1.2T 27% /usr/local/netflow/data
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| Apologies if it's already fixed in later 2.4.x.
I checked 2.4.22: it uses unsigned instead of signed values.
I checked 2.6.0-test4: it uses long long data types there, even better.
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