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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:34:27 +0200
From: Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>
To: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
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Subject: Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
"Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> 
> > Well I do use hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda in init to set dma to 1. I know
called
> > hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda and tried again, but it still fails. Do you mean
> > hdparm should not touch the device at all and a reboot without the
hdparm
> > -d 1 /dev/hda would do the job? I could live with that for the moment,
as
> > I don't have to repartition my drive very often...
> >
> 
> Woops. hit send too fast.
> 
> You can use hdparm once you've repartitioned though it seems. Still
> won't be able create any files >2GB once you've touched it with hdparm
> again but at least you'll be up and running with whatever size
> partitions you want and have dma enabled. Dunno if that's an issue.

I'm quite suprised, but this actually worked for me. Rebooted without
using hdparm, created the partintion (3GB) and everything seems ok. Looks
as if hdparm is doing something wrong here (v3.6).

Bye
Tim

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