From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@twilight.cs.hut.fi>,
Martin Bene <martin.bene@icomedias.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb]
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:39:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020427173913.A7293@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D143FBF049570C4BB99D962DC25FC2D2159B3A@freedom.icomedias.com> <20020427125551.GG10849@niksula.cs.hut.fi>
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:55:51PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 12:16:06PM +0200, you [Martin Bene] wrote:
> >
> > IDE: The kernel IDE driver needs to support 48-bit addresseing to support
> > 160GB.
> >
> > (...) however, you can do something about the linux ATA driver: code
> > is in the 2.4.19-pre tree, it went in with 2.4.19-pre3.
>
> But which IDE controllers support 48-bit addressing? Not all of them?
ALL IDE controllers support 48-bit addressing. Actually, they don't need
to know about it.
> Does
> linux IDE driver support 48-bit for all of them?
Yes, since 2.4.19-pre3 as far as I know.
> Do they require BIOS
> upgrade in order to operate 48-bit?
Only if you need to boot from the drive and then you still can boot from
the first 140 megs or so.
> Or can I just grab a 160GB Maxtor and 2.4.19-preX, stick them into whatever
> box I have and be done with it?
That's it, yes.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-27 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-27 10:16 AW: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb Martin Bene
2002-04-27 12:55 ` 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb] Ville Herva
2002-04-27 13:51 ` Kevin Krieser
2002-04-27 21:33 ` Andre Hedrick
[not found] ` <NDBBLFLJADKDMBPPNBALAEHKIEAA.kkrieser_list@footballmail.co m>
2002-04-27 15:02 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-27 15:42 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-27 15:50 ` Daniela Engert
2002-05-03 0:48 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-29 11:06 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-04-29 13:57 ` Mike Dresser
2002-04-27 15:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2002-04-27 21:36 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-04-27 23:38 ` Vojtech Pavlik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-27 15:33 AW: " Martin Bene
2002-04-27 22:32 ` Kevin Krieser
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