linux-kernel - Re: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB

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Message-ID: <499584FC.2050104@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:34:36 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
To:	Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ide <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB

(ccing linux-ide)

Hanno Böck wrote:
> I was about to shred some old hard drives. On one Hard drive, identified as:
> Conner Peripherals 240MB - CP30254
> 
> it was detected as 1.1 TB (!) and obviously throwing lots of errors after 
> getting over 240 MB.
> 
> Is this issue worth investigating further? System is ubuntu 8.10. If anyone 
> wants to have a deeper look, I can obviously donate that harddrive if you pay 
> me shipping costs.

That would be worth investigating, yes.. If you can provide the dmesg 
output from bootup, as well as the output of hdparm --Istdout on the 
disk device, that would be useful..
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