Re: Fwd: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

From: Ellwood Blues
Date: Tue Jan 22 2013 - 05:27:57 EST


2013/1/21 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 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?



USB SATA docking station which works out very well on windows.



>
> Either way... it is offtopic for the linux-efi mailing list.



Sorry! I didn't know this was a list I thought it was the developer
email address.

I think that linux-efi is the most appropriate one to send this
message because GPT is included in EFI modules, I didn't see any other
about GPT.

Cheers.
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