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* AW: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb
@ 2002-04-27 10:16 Martin Bene
  2002-04-27 12:55 ` 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb] Ville Herva
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Martin Bene @ 2002-04-27 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Wakko Warner, Jeff V. Merkey; +Cc: Randy.Dunlap, linux-kernel

Hi,

> It's not on a raid controller.  The machine has a PIIX3 ide 
> controller and a
> AHA-2940UW scsi controller.  Both exibit the same problem.

Actually, no: To fully use 160GB ATA drives, whatever device is on the other end of the ATA bus needs to actively support 48-bit address mode. In for the two cases you tried, that means 

IDE: The kernel IDE driver needs to support 48-bit addresseing to support 160GB.

SCSI: The firmware in your IDE<->SCSI Adapter needs to support 48-bit addressing.

So, while the symptoms are the same in both cases the problem is actually in two completely different places.

Most probably, you can't do anything about the IDE<->SCSI adapters firmware; 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.

Bye, Martin

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* AW: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb]
@ 2002-04-27 15:33 Martin Bene
  2002-04-27 22:32 ` Kevin Krieser
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Martin Bene @ 2002-04-27 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kevin Krieser, linux-kernel

Hi Kevin,

> You need an IDE controller that supports ATA133.  For most existing
> computers, that is going to require a new card.

That actually turns out not to be the case.

While you do need a new controller if you want to use ATA133, the LBA48 addressing scheme in no way depends on ATA133. Running a 160GB disk on your old ATA100 (or ATA66 or ATA33) controller works just fine.

Bye, Martin

-----Original  Message-----
> 
> 
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Ville Herva
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:56 AM
> To: Martin Bene; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb]
> 
> 
> 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? Does
> linux IDE driver support 48-bit for all of them? Do they require BIOS
> upgrade in order to operate 48-bit?
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
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2002-04-27 10:16 AW: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb Martin Bene
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2002-04-27 15:50       ` Daniela Engert
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