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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:51:01 +0100
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: "James Stevenson" <mistral@stev.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.x kernels, big ide disks and old bios
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:14:43 -0000
"James Stevenson" <mistral@stev.org> wrote:

> > I tried this one some time ago, and had to find out, that I was not able
> to
> > write to the upper cylinders of the disk. You can check this out _before_
> using
> > the drive via dd from /dev/zero to your /dev/drive and look at the
> results.
> 
> it seems to work fine for me.
> could it be possible that the chipset that you are using does not support
> disks bigger than 32GB ?

I don't know. I tried once with

00:01.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)

and it did not work. I could definitely not write beyond the 32 GB border. I
replaced the mobo then.

Regards,
Stephan

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