From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: "Norris, Brent" <bnorris@Edmonson.k12.ky.us>
Subject: Re: 128G Limit in Reiserfs? Or the Kernel? Or something else?
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:44:22 +0200
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IDE limit is 137GB, not 128GB.

2.6.0-test4 should be okay, unless you have Promise PDC20265,
then you should use 2.6.0-test5 (allows LBA48 DMA on PDC20265).

Latest 2.4-ac may be even better if you have i.e. ALi IDE controller.
It will use DMA transfers for < 137GB area and PIO for > 137GB,
whereas 2.6 will always use PIO.

--bartlomiej

On Thursday 25 of September 2003 16:03, Norris, Brent wrote:
> > What version of the linux kernel are you using?
> > Ie. provide some more info like what's 'uname -a'
> > say on your system. There's been a few patches go
> > by this list to fix this disk size problem. They
> > should also be in the latest kernel releases too.
>
> Ok, well that is a start then.  I am running Redhat's latest kernel
> 2.4.20-20.9 though I also have 2.4.0test4 on the machine.  I haven't tried
> it under 2.4.0test4 though.  I just didn't have enough time this morning
> when the error surfaced.  Are they in 2.4.22?  Because looking through the
> changelog, I see a bunch of AC's and other fixes for IDE items, but I don't
> see anything about this boundrey?  Did it go in before then?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Brent

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