We currently stuff a truncated size into the geometry logic and return
the result which can produce bizarre reports for a 4Tb array. Since that
mapping logic isn't useful for disks that big don't try and map this way
at all.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- libata-ref/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c 2006-05-23 13:05:45.000000000 +0100
+++ libata-dev/drivers/scsi/scsicam.c 2006-05-24 01:07:57.541182984 +0100
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
(unsigned int *)ip + 0, (unsigned int *)ip + 1);
kfree(p);
- if (ret == -1) {
+ if (ret == -1 && capacity < (1ULL << 32)) {
/* pick some standard mapping with at most 1024 cylinders,
and at most 62 sectors per track - this works up to
7905 MB */
-
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