USB and Firewire storage devices greater than 2TB cannot be accessed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and earlier

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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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