Can't format a 200GB drive larger that 129GB

[Madison Kelly]

Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Madison> Hi all, For some reason 'fdisk' (and 'parted') only see the new
> Madison> drive in my USB carrier as 129GB (137GB using
> Madison> 1,000,000,000b/gig). Has anyone seen this before? I am running
> Madison> Debian Sarge under a 2.6 kernel so I should expect that 200GB
> Madison> are supported...
> 
> Have you tried to wipe out the MBR and start from scratch (for example,
> with install-mbr)?
> 

Hmm, I don't have (and can't find) tue 'install-bmr' program. At any 
rate, It is looking like it's a 48-bit addressing limit on the IDE to 
USB2 controller (an undocumented one). I got my hand on another 250GB 
USB2 drive and it came up just fine.

*sigh*

Thanks though for replying!

Madison

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