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SubjectRe: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:34:11PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:17:53PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Wakko Warner wrote:
> >
> > | Just bought a maxtor 160gb disk and it shows upt as a 137gb disk. I thought
> > | this might be the system board's ide chipset limitation so I put a scsi->ide
> > | adapter on the drive. Same situation occurs. I'm looking at what the kernel
> > | reports when it finds the drive. /proc/partitions shows this drive as:
> > | 8 0 134217727 sda
> > | /proc/scsi/scsi shows:
> > | Attached devices:
> > | Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> > | Vendor: Maxtor 4 Model: G160J8 Rev: GAK8
> > | Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > |
> > | I tried kernel 2.4.14 and 2.4.18. Any ideas?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There was a thread on this 2-3 months back.
> > IDE in 2.4 doesn't have a 48-bit block address interface IIRC,
> > although Andre has some patches for this.
> > This is necessary to go above 137 GB.
>
> Wasn't some of that merged into one of the early 2.4.19-pre kernels?
> -


True, but some cards will require a firmware upgrade.

Jeff

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