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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2004-10-04 21:21 137 GB limit? Luciano A. Stertz
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