mvegetto
07-12-2010, 06:49
Hi, I suggest to write a ticket and ask a technican to replace USB cable of that hard disk, that solved a similiar issue here. Unplug/plug can give you miracles
500GB usb disk suddenly shows as 2.2TB
CAPE
25-11-2010, 20:15
Hey,
The usb disk been working like a charm for over a year and I have 3 usb disks connected to a Kimsufi 4XL but few days ago the usb disk is showing larger the it should.
Please help me to solve this issue, this what it shows when I do fdisk -l
WARNING: The size of this disk is 2.2 TB (2199023255552 bytes).
DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes
larger than (2199023255040 bytes) for 512-byte sectors. Use parted(1) and GUID
partition table format (GPT).
Disk /dev/sdd: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255552 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
The usb disk been working like a charm for over a year and I have 3 usb disks connected to a Kimsufi 4XL but few days ago the usb disk is showing larger the it should.
Please help me to solve this issue, this what it shows when I do fdisk -l
WARNING: The size of this disk is 2.2 TB (2199023255552 bytes).
DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes
larger than (2199023255040 bytes) for 512-byte sectors. Use parted(1) and GUID
partition table format (GPT).
Disk /dev/sdd: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255552 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000