Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:23:01 +0100 | From | Lionel Bouton <> | Subject | Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) |
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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.
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