Explanation of RHEL message "very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16)."
Issue
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Excerpt from /var/log/messages:
Jul 13 15:07:49 localhost kernel: Vendor: 3PARdata Model: VV Rev: 0000 Jul 13 15:07:49 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Jul 13 15:07:49 localhost kernel: sda : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Jul 13 15:07:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 4718592000 512-byte hdwr sectors (2415919 MB)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, 5, 6, 7
- Last addressable disk sector number is greater than 0xFFFFFFFF
- Greater than 2.19TB attached storage device (512n or 512e device format, 512b sector size), or
- Greater than 17.59TB attached storage device (4Kn device format, 4096b sector size)
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