[Wylug-help] SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[James Holden]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:01 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> 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
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/2.00
> TiB)
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off 

I'd send the SATA adapter back, it's obviously returning crap to the OS.

James


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