PATCH: Support tera byte disk

From: H. J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 15:11:20 EST

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For a 1.8TB SCSI HD, kernel reports:

SCSI device sda: -773086208 512-byte hdwr sectors (-395819 MB)

Here is a patch to fix it. BTW, I don't think it will work with > 2TB,
which requires bigger changes.

H.J.

text/plain attachment: linux-2.4.18-tera.patch

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