Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:38:06 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb] |
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On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:36:07PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 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.
Care to bless the mailing-list with the names of the chipsets that have trouble?
> However I need to compose a test to revoke their 48-bit operations > regardless if the device supports.
If you have a list, then the test is quite easy, ain't it?
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