Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2003 12:19:39 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20 SMP, a PDC20269, and a huge Maxtor disk. Am I doomed? |
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On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:48:47AM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote: > In the aftermath of a horrible crash (one minute all was well, the next > minute all the active ext3 filesystems behaved like they'd been run through a > cheese grater), I've installed a 200GB Maxtor drive, and a Promise Ultra133 > TX2 card to let me actually use all of it. > > The mobo BIOS doesn't speak 48-bit LBA, so it sees a 137 GB drive. That's > fine, I'm guessing, since (I'm told) Linux doesn't get its information > from the BIOS.
I believe LBA48 was introduced in 2.4.21-pre. Try 2.4.21-rc2 and see what happens.
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