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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0902142228410.651@ftp.linux-mips.org>
Date:	Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:35:18 +0000 (GMT)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
cc:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>,
	Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>,
	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

Hi Sergei,

> > not explicit about how words 57 and 58 were meant to be ordered and some
> > manufacturers interpreted it one and some the other way.
> 
>   However, the drive vendors should've really thought better before reporting
> capacity in *middle-endian* format. :-)

 Oh, come on!  Don't accuse everyone of thinking.  Besides, someone had to 
try that reverse-pdp-endian mode, didn't they? ;)

  Maciej
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