From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20 SMP, a PDC20269, and a huge Maxtor disk. Am I doomed?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:19:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030522161939.GA23140@tsunami.ccur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030522134847.GA20179@disaster.jaj.com>
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:48:47AM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> In the aftermath of a horrible crash (one minute all was well, the next
> minute all the active ext3 filesystems behaved like they'd been run through a
> cheese grater), I've installed a 200GB Maxtor drive, and a Promise Ultra133
> TX2 card to let me actually use all of it.
>
> The mobo BIOS doesn't speak 48-bit LBA, so it sees a 137 GB drive. That's
> fine, I'm guessing, since (I'm told) Linux doesn't get its information
> from the BIOS.
I believe LBA48 was introduced in 2.4.21-pre. Try 2.4.21-rc2 and see what
happens.
Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-22 16:06 UTC|newest]
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2003-05-22 13:48 Phil Edwards
2003-05-22 16:19 ` Joe Korty [this message]
2003-05-22 17:37 ` Phil Edwards
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2003-05-22 17:37 ` Phil Edwards
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