Re: Very old IDE hard drive (240 MB) detected as 1.1 TB

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

Hi Sergei,

> > not explicit about how words 57 and 58 were meant to be ordered and some
> > manufacturers interpreted it one and some the other way.
> 
>   However, the drive vendors should've really thought better before reporting
> capacity in *middle-endian* format. :-)

 Oh, come on!  Don't accuse everyone of thinking.  Besides, someone had to 
try that reverse-pdp-endian mode, didn't they? ;)

  Maciej
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