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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:03:20 +0100
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Larry Hileman <LHileman@snapappliance.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about 48 bit IDE on 2.4.18 kernel
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> [LHileman@snapappliance.com]
> 
> Moving to 2.4.20/21 is a large effort here.  If I need to implement
> the larger drives in 2.4.18, I'd like to make sure that this
> has not already been done and that I have the latest code.

Well, the patches to the IDE layer in patch-2.4.19 & patch-2.4.20
are both relatively numerous and large, but should still be quite
straightforward to extract, given you're good with various diff
utils.  The block layer changes that Alan mentions will be minimal
and probably easy to trace.

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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