On 01/19/2013 03:40 PM, Ellwood Blues wrote: > Hi. > > I've had this problem for so long that today after compiling kernel > 3.7.3 and not getting any improvements I decided to let you know that > some of us still only able to use our GPT 3TB hard disks only on > Windows. > > On linux only hdparm and gdisk see 3TB but also see some kind of > corruption on the alternate GPT which is not true because on windows > works flawlessly. > > I hope you won't take too long to make it work because this is the > only reason I still loging in on windows, before buying this disk I > didn't log in on windows at all. > > I don't need the EFI drivers to work because the BIOS is not ready for > that, I only would like to read and write on the disk which is already > half full and cannot do any new experiments trying to fix it with > gdisk. > > I only need the kernel GPT drivers to work out. > This has nothing to do with GPT. The problem is that the capacity reported by the drive is truncated: May 3 18:19:06 relampago3 kernel: [ 3948.472796] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] 1565565872 512-byte logical blocks: (801 GB/746 GiB) Is the hdparm produced via the USB interface or by plugging the internal drive into an SATA/eSATA port? Either way... it is offtopic for the linux-efi mailing list. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
