Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262031AbTEVQG6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2003 12:06:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262709AbTEVQG6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2003 12:06:58 -0400 Received: from mail.ccur.com ([208.248.32.212]:46610 "EHLO exchange.ccur.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262031AbTEVQG5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2003 12:06:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:19:39 -0400 From: Joe Korty To: Phil Edwards Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.20 SMP, a PDC20269, and a huge Maxtor disk. Am I doomed? Message-ID: <20030522161939.GA23140@tsunami.ccur.com> Reply-To: joe.korty@ccur.com References: <20030522134847.GA20179@disaster.jaj.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030522134847.GA20179@disaster.jaj.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 20 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. Joe - 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/