On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> Don't forget that lots of disks go crazy if you try to read from a nonexistent
> block, that is, one beyond the end of the disk.
> IMO, this bug cannot be worked around in any reasonable manner.  The
> device simply cannot handle disks larger than 2 TB.


This device works well on Windows 7 if HDD is already partitioned. Sounds like 
Win7 gnores the READ_CAPACITY value on a partitioned HDD. It shows 4TB on disk 
manager, but will fall back to 1.8TB if I remove the partition.
Could we do the same? Would be possible to signalize to upper layers that 
capacity is not accurate (or return zero) on this device, and tell GPT handlers 
to bypass it's partition_size vs disk size consistency check?

Thanks,
Alfredo
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