Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:36:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb] |
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On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:55:51PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 12:16:06PM +0200, you [Martin Bene] wrote: > > > > > > IDE: The kernel IDE driver needs to support 48-bit addresseing to support > > > 160GB. > > > > > > (...) however, you can do something about the linux ATA driver: code > > > is in the 2.4.19-pre tree, it went in with 2.4.19-pre3. > > > > But which IDE controllers support 48-bit addressing? Not all of them? > > ALL IDE controllers support 48-bit addressing. Actually, they don't need > to know about it.
Sorry this is not correct, I have a list that fail. However I need to compose a test to revoke their 48-bit operations regardless if the device supports.
> > Does > > linux IDE driver support 48-bit for all of them? > > Yes, since 2.4.19-pre3 as far as I know. > > > Do they require BIOS > > upgrade in order to operate 48-bit? > > Only if you need to boot from the drive and then you still can boot from > the first 140 megs or so. > > > Or can I just grab a 160GB Maxtor and 2.4.19-preX, stick them into whatever > > box I have and be done with it? > > That's it, yes. > > -- > Vojtech Pavlik > SuSE Labs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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