Parted problem on large disks

[Bergsteinn Gunnarsson]

Hi guys,

I don't know if it's a bug but I send it anyway to this bugreport.
I hope you can help me.

I have EMC AX100SC storage box. I created a very large disk pool and virtual disks (4.5TB)
I'm using RHEL4 Linux 2.6.9-34.EL #1 Fri Feb 24 16:44:51 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
And I'm also using parted shipped with RHEL4 .

I get this error when I'm using parted on the 4.5TB storage box. See below ..
address@hidden ~]# parted /dev/sde
GNU Parted 1.6.19
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See
the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/sde
(parted) p
Error: Input/output error during read on /dev/sde
Retry/Ignore/Cancel?

This is in the message log when I do use parted on the diskbox….
Current sde: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense: Unrecovered read error
end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 9349103483
Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 9349103449
scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 2, lun 0, CDB: Read (16) 00 00 00 00 02 2d 3f ff 7c 00 00 00 26 00 00

I let fdisk -l output for sde follow as well
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sde'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Disk /dev/sde: 4786.7 GB, 4786741051392 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 581954 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1               1      267350  2147483647+  ee  EFI GPT

I have been using parted on other storage boxes we have but they are a bit less or 3.3TB and it worked fine.

I hope I'm asking the right people for help and you have enough info to deal with.

Kveðja / Regards
Bergsteinn E. G.
kerfisstjóri: Landsbókasafn Íslands & Háskólabókasafn
system manager: National & University Library, Iceland
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