This is with current git as of this morning, which is at v2.6.30-rc2. I have a 1.5TB USB device which gets a bit angry when I plug it in. It ends up with a scsi_disk->capacity of ffffffffaea87b30. I tracked it down to the lba calculation in read_capacity_10(): lba = (buffer[0] << 24) | (buffer[1] << 16) | (buffer[2] << 8) | buffer[3]; lba is getting all 0xf's in its high 32 bits. It seems odd that this would happen since 'buffer' is an 'unsigned char', but that is apparently what is going on. Note that this isn't an issue 32-bit kernels compiled with CONFIG_LBD=n since there's no more bits into which the sign could be extended. The attached one-liner seems to make my system happier. Before patch (with a bit of my added debugging): sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] read_capacity_10() sector size: 0x200/512 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] capacity (in 512-byte blocks: ffffffffaea87b30 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size sector_size was: 0xffffffea/-22 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte hardware sectors: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB) sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] read_capacity_10() sector size: 0x200/512 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] capacity (in 512-byte blocks: ffffffffaea87b30 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size sector_size was: 0xffffffea/-22 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: No additional sense information after patch: [ 5257.068646] usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9 [ 5257.215421] usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 5257.221640] scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 5257.221937] usb-storage: device found at 9 [ 5257.221939] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [ 5262.225981] usb-storage: device scan complete [ 5262.227477] scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate FreeAgent 102D PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 [ 5262.227936] sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 5273.458856] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] 2930277168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.50 TB/1.36 TiB) [ 5273.460121] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 5273.460126] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00 [ 5273.460130] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 5273.475750] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 5273.488125] sdc: sdc1 [ 5273.541147] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c index 3fcb64b..db60e96 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ static int read_capacity_10(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, struct scsi_device *sdp, sector_size = (buffer[4] << 24) | (buffer[5] << 16) | (buffer[6] << 8) | buffer[7]; - lba = (buffer[0] << 24) | (buffer[1] << 16) | + lba = ((sector_t)buffer[0] << 24) | (buffer[1] << 16) | (buffer[2] << 8) | buffer[3]; if ((sizeof(sdkp->capacity) == 4) && (lba == 0xffffffff)) { -- Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html