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From: Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton@inet6.fr>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:23:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3D87A5.10800@inet6.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0201101010090.2985-100000@imladris.surriel.com>

Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Jim Crilly wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>
>I think you'll agree with him the moment you end up with
>a cheap 160 GB drive in your machine and the old driver
>(which is limited to 32(?)-bit LBA) won't let you use a
>
28-bit addressing space with 512 byte sectors in fact.
Max corresponding capacity : 2^28 x 512  = 2^37 = 128 GiB ~ 137 GB

LB.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-10 12:23 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
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 [this message]
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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