I came across this exact problem yesterday. The drive works fine when installed internally, but shows up as 801GB when plugged into my USB-SATA adapter. It appears that the SATA chipset also needs to support drives >2TB. Rich On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:08:50PM -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > > Tim, > > Thanks for your response. > > I had tried what you suggested but the system still reports 801.6 GB. > > I have seen some mention of firmware problems but the asus.com web site seems > to have firmware carefully hidden. > > What are your thoughts? > > George... > > fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 801.6 GB, 801569726464 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 97451 cylinders, total 1565565872 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x52f115ab > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > Here's what dmesg says: > > 2943 [160827.397064] scsi9 : usb-storage 2-1.4.4:1.0 > 2944 [160828.398507] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST3000DM > 001-9YN166 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS > 2945 [160828.400114] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > 2946 [160828.400635] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 1565565872 512-byte logical blocks: > (801 GB/746 GiB) > 2947 [160828.401611] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off > 2948 [160828.401615] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00 > 2949 [160828.402650] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed > 2950 [160828.402661] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > 2951 [160828.406626] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed > 2952 [160828.406629] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > 2953 [160828.415219] sdb: unknown partition table > 2954 [160828.418199] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed > 2955 [160828.418202] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > 2956 [160828.418205] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
