Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd)

Aaron Blew
2002-01-10T19:00:29Z

This is where I am right now :). 25+GB of space I can't use is
frustrating, especially considering that I've only got 30-40GB free,
with space dissappearing regularly (I obsessively capture video off TV
:)).

Hope it gets included,
-Aaron

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 04:11, 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
> large portion of the disk ;)
>
> Rik
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