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From: Jim Crilly <noth@noth.is.eleet.ca>
To: Chris Ball <chris@void.printf.net>
Cc: Benjamin S Carrell <ben@xmission.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:31:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3D191E.7090804@noth.is.eleet.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020110040308.A28692@void.printf.net>

Actually it would seem this is just Andre's, not so subtle, way of 
trying to prove that his ATA133/48-bit addressing patches need included 
in 2.4.

-Jim

Chris Ball wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:14:32PM -0700, Benjamin S Carrell wrote:
> 
>>I would think that you lose that space to formatting
>>
> 
> That would be irrelevant.  We're looking at the kernel's summation of
> the geometry, not the filesystem's description of usable space.
> 
> 
>>(would it not get the size of the drive from the bios?)
>>
> 
> No, the kernel tends not to rely on the BIOS for geometry.  Which is
> usually very wise.
> 
> 
>>but I stand open for correction.
>>
> 
> Same here.  It's always a good idea.  :-)
> 
> Is this perhaps Maxtor providing their own 'non-standard'[1] definition
> of gigabyte, rather than a technical issue?
> 
> - Chris.
> 
> [1]: (viz. 'wrong')
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-10  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-10  1:46 Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) Andre Hedrick
2002-01-10  3:14 ` Benjamin S Carrell
2002-01-10  4:03   ` Chris Ball
2002-01-10  4:31     ` Jim Crilly [this message]
2002-01-10 12:11       ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-10 12:15         ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-10 13:22           ` Marcel J.E. Mol
2002-01-10 14:56             ` Hans Reiser
2002-01-10 15:04               ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-10 12:23         ` Lionel Bouton
2002-01-10 12:40         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 12:45           ` David Weinehall
2002-01-10 13:47             ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 18:59         ` Aaron Blew
2002-01-10 19:14           ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-10 19:14       ` Ricky Beam
2002-01-10 19:59         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 19:08     ` Ricky Beam
2002-01-10  4:59   ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-10  9:50     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-01-11 21:13     ` Rogier Wolff
2002-01-12  9:14       ` Andre Hedrick
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-10 10:00 Andries.Brouwer

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