Pardon my jumping in, but last year I've encountered this at least once
- back then I didn't have time to test it nor track it down (I received
this error message as part of a customer bug report), and in the
meantime I'm no longer working on that project... But this is definitely
interesting. :)
Andre
Eric Auer schrieb:
> Having more than 64k heads or sectors-per-track is just
> a sign of implausible extended geometries. The real limit
> tested for is 2 Terabyte (more than 4 G total sectors)...
> However, maybe the fallback is to use CHS if the LBA data
> is implausible - then you can indeed only use 8 GB...?
[...]
>> printf("Drive is too large to handle, using only 1st 8 GB\n"
>> " heads %lu sectors %lu , total=0x%lx-%08lx\n", ...
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