On 06/21/12 18:02, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:26:23AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:54:55PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> > It seems the lba48 capacity values being pulled out aren't sane >> > for whatever reason. >> > >> > Can you try switch the controller into ahci mode via the bios? >> >> Looking at this again, it seems there is no support for 4k >> sectors with wd(4) only sd(4). So until someone with a 4k sector disk >> can change that code you'll have to switch the controller to ahci mode. >> > > Dammit. The plan was for wd(4) to die before disks got that big. Sigh. > > .... Ken >
ok, let's see if I got this right... that's not a >2TB disk issue, that's a 4k issue, so this could potentially bite people with smaller disks that were also 4k sectored? Nick. (who has rather little ahci stuff in the barn)
