Re: [ILUG] Large IDE drives

From: Scott Wunsch (ilug at domain tracking.wunsch.org)
Date: Mon 22 May 2000 - 16:46:55 IST

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On Mon, 22-May-2000 at 01:23:02 +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:

> I have read that current kernels have a problem with IDE drives > 32GB in
> size. Does anyone have pointers to more specific information about this ? Is
> it slated to be fixed in 2.4 ?

Actually, I thought I remembered something about it being fixed in 2.2.15.
Unfortunately, the only thing I could find was this vague statement:

   IDE Driver
          Fix some geometry handling bugs with very large disks.

So I'm not sure whether that's it or not.

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Scott \\'unsch
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