Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Hum, it may be another issue here: 268435392 is not the "magic" number.
> And this drive seems to be an older revision, which shouldn't have the
> problem.
> 
> But this request is crossing the 128Gb barrier, this can be an issue
> (and I would understand a drive bailing on this). Carl, can you try the
> attached patch ?

I would, except I already hacked at wd.c and added the ID for my
drives for the LBA48 quirk, which seems to have worked.