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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: "James Stevenson" <mistral@stev.org>
Cc: jlladono@pie.xtec.es, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x kernels, big ide disks and old bios
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:51:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011227195101.5bf120f9.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c18ed8$73f2b2d0$0801a8c0@Stev.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C285B40.91A83EC7@jep.dhis.org> <001a01c18d77$a9e92ca0$0801a8c0@Stev.org> <20011226173307.34e25fe6.skraw@ithnet.com> <000701c18ed8$73f2b2d0$0801a8c0@Stev.org>

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:14:43 -0000
"James Stevenson" <mistral@stev.org> wrote:

> > I tried this one some time ago, and had to find out, that I was not able
> to
> > write to the upper cylinders of the disk. You can check this out _before_
> using
> > the drive via dd from /dev/zero to your /dev/drive and look at the
> results.
> 
> it seems to work fine for me.
> could it be possible that the chipset that you are using does not support
> disks bigger than 32GB ?

I don't know. I tried once with

00:01.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)

and it did not work. I could definitely not write beyond the 32 GB border. I
replaced the mobo then.

Regards,
Stephan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-27 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-25 10:56 Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-25 14:10 ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2001-12-25 19:09 ` James Stevenson
2001-12-26 16:33 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-27 13:14   ` James Stevenson
2001-12-27 18:51   ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2001-12-27 19:53     ` Ido Diamant
2001-12-27 22:41     ` Guest section DW
2001-12-27 23:04       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-28  0:06         ` [PATCH] " Eric Lammerts
2001-12-28  3:29         ` Andre Hedrick
2001-12-30  1:40           ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-28 21:52 ` Jorge Nerin
2001-12-30  9:33   ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-25 16:38 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-25 22:52 ` Eric Lammerts
2001-12-26  9:28   ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-26 10:39 ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2001-12-26  2:12 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-30  2:47 Andries.Brouwer

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