Re: Cosmetic error: 2.4.20 bootup and >2^31 sector SCSI devices

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:20:22 +1000 david@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

| This looks like it's using some signed numbers that should be unsigned:
| 
| SCSI device sdc: -876998784 512-byte hdwr sectors (-449022 MB)
| 
| However all the tools (mkfs etc) work correctly and work out the correct
| drive size (~1.75Tb):
| 
| /dev/sdc              1.7T  465G  1.2T  27% /usr/local/netflow/data
| 
| Apologies if it's already fixed in later 2.4.x.

I checked 2.4.22:  it uses unsigned instead of signed values.
I checked 2.6.0-test4:  it uses long long data types there, even better.

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~Randy
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