Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:22:19 +0100 | | From | "Marcel J.E. Mol" <> | | Subject | Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) |
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:15:57PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10 2002, 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 ;) > > It's 28-bit LBA, which means > > 2^28 * 512 == 137GB (hard disk manufacturer gigs) > > So waste is just 23GB :-)
At the current rate the 200GB or 32GB disk will appear in a couple of days: 320-137 = 183 GB :-)
> > Once the ide stuff has been proven, of course it will get integrated. >
At this time it is stale enough to keep my laptop from filesystem corruption (write cash flush)...
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