Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:58:34 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: uncorrectable ext2 errors
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On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:34:50PM +0200, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:19:55PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> Sorry - I mentioned it in an earlier post with a different subject. It's
> plain 2.4.21. 
> 
> > It it is zero, then you are hit by something avoided by the patch
> > I sketched yesterday evening or so.
> 
> It is 0, yes. May it be caused by the following lines in pdc202xx_old.c?
> 
>         if (hwif->pci_dev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20265)
>                 hwif->addressing = (hwif->channel) ? 0 : 1;

OK. So, this means that you cannot access past the 2^28 sector boundary.

So, you can address at most 137 GB of your disk.

Did you say that it was 250 GB?


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