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F**K what a SAGA. The solution was to add 'libata.ignore_hpa=1' to the linux cmdline - which actually worked and linux saw the full size of the drive. I could then mount the drive properly. probably I had an older kernel on the NAS and it was rebooted only now, so I didn't know it until...

omniscence: yes for hdparm. I did get the cmdline to work just now. linux shows the correct sector sizes, but gdisk still isn't happy with the size. fsck is working right now (heck only a few sectors missing at the end of the drive, i rather have the rest of the data working..

the drive physically seems fine. (checked with smartctl). its 3TB and NOT backed up. I'm pretty sure its a software issue, and the partition was made on an older system, so it ignored HPA, which is what fucked up everything. Also, it might also have to do with a bad GPT now that I've played...

the hdparm man page says these commands just might not work well with some controllers/drives. I might be able to override this by recompiling the kernel (to ignore HPA and disabling hpa for all drives), but I doubt that would help for getting the drive to mount ? (or would it)

cmdline - dunno why - probably I am not entering it correctly. as for hdparm - It says it works, when i check again with N only, it says the right number, but after a reboot the hpa values seem to stick :( oh boy its a full 3TB drive :(

Yeah, I found out how to disable with hdparm already, but both CMDLINE and hdparm methods don't work for me..

UPDATE2: I found out whats the problem with the geometry size - seems the drive has something thats called HPA (host protected area) on the disk, thats why linux didn't see the whole size. - you can get linux to ignore it by passing ide_core.nohpa=0.0 in the commandline I'm currently...

UPDATE: I booted a different linux distrubution, and this could see the whole 3TB (weird, because I don't remember changing kernels on the old one!). In any case, there's another problem. the drive won't mount because it sees a DIFFERENT drive geometry. the old says: First usable sector is...

SEE UPDATE ON SECOND POST... Hi, I have a seagate 3TB drive formatted with GPT working on my NAS for a long time now (it is NOT bootable). All the sudden, yesterday it stopped working. When I look at the boot log files I see: [ 45.620232] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr...