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<DIV><SPAN class=278100620-16112009><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Hallo</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=278100620-16112009><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I submitted this as
a bug several weeks ago, but I wanted to ask around & see if anyone else has
come across this....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=278100620-16112009><TD class=category></TD><FONT size=2
face=Arial><TD colspan="5">I have a USB Buffalo Drivestation Quattro, with 4 1TB
disks configured in raid5 as one 2.8TB (or so) disk, attached to a Cent 5.4 64
bit server (completely yum'd up to date)<BR><BR>The disk is labeled as GPT, and
formatted as a 2.8 TB ext3 partition (this issue also happens with xfs). I
used a gparted boot disk to create the partition.<BR><BR>When I attach the drive
I see this in messages:<BR><BR>Nov 2 14:26:55 kernel: usb 1-5.2: new high speed
USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7<BR>Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb 1-5.2:
configuration </FONT><A title="[resolved] RFE: 'non-Free' packages disclaimer"
href="http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>0000001</FONT></A><FONT size=2 face=Arial> chosen from 1
choice<BR>Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage
devices<BR>Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb-storage: device found at 7<BR>Nov 2
14:26:56 kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before
scanning<BR>Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: Vendor: BUFFALO Model: HD-QSSU2/R5 1 Rev:
2.02<BR>Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05<BR>Nov
2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).<BR>Nov 2
14:27:01 kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed.<BR>Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc :
status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=00<BR>Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : use
0xffffffff as device size<BR>Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 4294967296
512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB)<BR>Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: Write Protect
is off<BR><BR>After this failure, the disk is either a) inaccessible, or b)
reports only a 2 TB partition.<BR><BR>The latest Ubuntu can read the disk,
presenting the full 2.8 TB just peachy.<BR><BR>This server is up to
date:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=278100620-16112009><FONT size=2 face=Arial>uname -a: Linux
myserver.mydomain.com 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 16:18:27 EST 2009 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>cat
/etc/redhat-release: CentOS release 5.4 (Final)<BR><BR>[root@myserver ~]# cat
/proc/partitions<BR>major minor #blocks
name<BR> ...<BR> 8 32 2147483648 sdc <<
the disk showing incorrectly with only 2TB of storage</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=278100620-16112009><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This bug seems very
similar to a previous bug: <A
href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502944">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502944</A>
which was reported fixed in 5.4 </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=278100620-16112009><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Anyone seen
this before, or have any ideas how I can get CentOS to see the
disk?</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=278100620-16112009><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>Cheers,</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=278100620-16112009><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>Gareth</TD></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>