I wonder can any of you shed some light on this. I have a Maxtor
6Y160L0 disk which is a 160GB disk. Of course that's disk drive
manufacturer GB but even so, it doesn't explain what I see when I
connect it to a box using a Firewire-IDE adapter. I can't mount an
existing partition on the disk, and the figures don't gell. From dmesg
I see
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: Y160L0 Rev: YAR4
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06
SCSI device sda: 268435455 512-byte hdwr sectors (137439 MB)
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
and fdisk -l /dev/sda gives
Disk /dev/sda: 137.4 GB, 137438952960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16709 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 19929 160079661 83 Linux
You can see from fdisk that there is a partition of 160079661 blocks
which at 1024 bytes/block comes to rather more than 137438952960.
Any ideas?
Niall
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