USB and Firewire storage devices greater than 2TB cannot be accessed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and earlier
Issue
- Very large usb-storage (over 2TB) are broken in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (even RHEL5.5). Below is the error in dmesg messages,
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 4 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: ST315003 Model: 41AS Rev: SD1A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 sde : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). sde : READ CAPACITY(16) failed. sde : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=00 sde : use 0xffffffff as device size
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 5
- USB or Firewire storage over 2 TB size
- Note that non-USB and non-firewire storage is not affected.
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