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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: "Luciano A. Stertz" <luciano@tteng.com.br>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 137 GB limit?
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:44:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041005074435.GA22634@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4161BED1.7040401@tteng.com.br>

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:21:21PM -0300, Luciano A. Stertz wrote:
> 	Does Linux already support hard disks higher than 137 Gb? I guess 
> 	so.

Yes it does.

> In this case, can someone give me an idea of when was this feature 
> officially merged in the kernel? I'm running an old 2.4.20 kernel and 
> wonder whether it supports newer HDs.

IIRC support was merged in 2.4.19. I remember I needed to use Andre
Hedrick's IDE patch for 2.4.18 to address the 160GB Maxtor drives we
used at that time, but 2.4.19 ran out of the box.


Erik

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-05  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-04 21:21 137 GB limit? Luciano A. Stertz
2004-10-05  7:44 ` Erik Mouw [this message]

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