[PLUG] Strange hard drive capacity 2048GB !?

Alex Daniloff alex at daniloff.com
Sun Sep 21 13:55:02 UTC 2003


Hello Linux folkz,
I've just installed a couple of WDE9150 Western Digital SCSI hard drives to 
build RAID5. 
To my suprise, each of these drives shows 2048GB of its capacity instead of 
real 9.1GB. Just for the sake of sanity I tried to install Linux on one of 
these drives. Installation failed with warnings related to some IO problems.
Could somebody tell me please if I have to perform low level formatting of 
these SCSI drives before building RAID5, or these drives just defective and 
I'll have exchange them and bit crap out of vendor.
Thank you very much in advance for any help or source of information.





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