Hello All,<br><br>I have seen something VERY similar and would guess your external (500 GB) is corrupted, failing, dying, etc and causing the mystery 2.2tb to show up. I would make sure all information on it is backed up. <br>
<br>FiL<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:33 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jep200404@columbus.rr.com">jep200404@columbus.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:02:26 -0600, Richard Hornsby <<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> brw-r----- 1 rhornsby operator 14, 5 Mar 10 13:37 /dev/disk2<br>
<br>
</div>What do the following reveal?<br>
<br>
fdisk -l /dev/disk2<br>
dd if=/dev/disk2 | xxd -g 1 -u | less<br>
dd if=/dev/disk2 | strings | less<br>
dd if=/dev/disk2 | strings -n 8 | less<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge:<br>
><br>
> Capacity: 2.2 TB (2,199,023,255,552 bytes)<br>
<br>
</div>That's a curious number. It is exactly (2^32) 512 byte sectors.<br>
IIRC (2^32) sectors is the maximum size for LBA32 drives and<br>
controllers[1]. My guess is that it's also the maximum size for<br>
USB mass storage devices.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Product ID: 0x2338<br>
> Vendor ID: 0x152d (JMicron Technology Corp.)<br>
<br>
</div>I would start paying attention to the vendor and product ID more.<br>
What have found about these when you search the web?<br>
Does it match that of any other thing in your computer?<br>
Unplug each one USB thing at a time,<br>
then run lsusb and look for anything interesting.<br>
Could it be on the motherboard?<br>
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