0003969: READ CAPACITY(16) failed on 2TB+ USB drive

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0003969

[CentOS-5] kernel

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2009-11-03 00:40

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garetht

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normal

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open

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new

Product Version

5.4

Summary

0003969: READ CAPACITY(16) failed on 2TB+ USB drive

Description

I have a USB Buffalo Drivestation Quattro, with 4 1TB disks configured in raid5 as one 2.8TB (or so) disk, attached to a Cent 5.4 64 bit server.

The disk is labeled as GPT, and formatted as a 2.8 TB ext3 partition (this issue also happens with xfs).

When I attach the drive I see this in messages:

Nov 2 14:26:55 kernel: usb 1-5.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb 1-5.2: configuration 0000001 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb-storage: device found at 7
Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: Vendor: BUFFALO Model: HD-QSSU2/R5 1 Rev: 2.02
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed.
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=00
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : use 0xffffffff as device size
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB)
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: Mode Sense: 53 00 00 08
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed.
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=00
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : use 0xffffffff as device size
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB)
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: Mode Sense: 53 00 00 08
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: unknown partition table
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete

After this failure, the disk is either a) inaccessible, or b) reports only a 2 TB partition.

The latest Ubuntu can read the disk, presenting the full 2.8 TB just peachy.

This server is up to date:
uname -a: Linux myserver.mydomainname.com 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus 0000001 SMP Fri Oct 9 12:34:43 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/redhat-release: CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

[root@myserver ~]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
...
8 32 2147483648 sdc << the disk showing incorrectly with only 2TB of storage

Additional Information

This bug seems very similar to a previous bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502944 [^] which was reported fixed in 5.4

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2009-11-03 00:40	garetht	New Issue
2009-11-03 00:40	garetht	Assigned To	=> kbsingh@karan.org

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