From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270752AbTHJWKZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:10:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270753AbTHJWKZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:10:25 -0400 Received: from mail.gondor.com ([212.117.64.182]:34822 "EHLO moria.gondor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270752AbTHJWKW (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:10:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:10:20 +0200 From: Jan Niehusmann To: Andries Brouwer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: uncorrectable ext2 errors Message-ID: <20030810221020.GA7832@gondor.com> References: <20030806150335.GA5430@gondor.com> <20030807110641.GA31809@gondor.com> <20030807211236.GA5637@win.tue.nl> <20030810205513.GA6337@gondor.com> <20030810231955.A16852@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030810213450.GA7050@gondor.com> <20030810235834.A16865@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030810235834.A16865@pclin040.win.tue.nl> X-Request-PGP: http://gondor.com/key.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:58:34PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > OK. So, this means that you cannot access past the 2^28 sector boundary. > > So, you can address at most 137 GB of your disk. > > Did you say that it was 250 GB? Exactly. And it's reported as 250GB, and I can access parts of the disk behind the 137 GB limit without an error message, but it looks like writing to these parts, it silently overwrites content at the beginning of the drive. Like it just discards the upper bits of the address or something like that. Jan