Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:22:23 +0100 | | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | | Subject | Re: 2.4.18: many IDE errors |
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:24:38AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > > > The PCI IDE cards I use are ATA-100, so this is the max speed available > > > to be. The four large disks can do ATA-133. > > > > > > The 48bit addressing (to allow >137GB) seems to be unrelated, and it > > > works with these cards. But I needed to apply: > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.4.18/ > > > ide.2.4.18-rc1.02152002.patch.bz2 > > > > but ... > > > > how can that work? i mean - 48bit addressing is in the udma133 standard > > but not in udma100... > > > > how does the /proc/mdstat and /proc/partitions look? > > I am not in front of the machine, but let me tell you that mdstat shows > a full 480GB RAID5. There are no partitions (hde/g/i/k are used raw). > > Again, I think udma133 and 48bit addressing are two, independent issues. > The first is an electronic spec for the hardware, the second is an api > standard which, it seems, can run at any speed. > > Maybe Andre can make a clear statement here?
You're right.
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