Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:29:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:29:23 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:56072 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:29:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) To: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:40:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: noth@noth.is.eleet.ca (Jim Crilly), chris@void.printf.net (Chris Ball), ben@xmission.com (Benjamin S Carrell), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Rik van Riel" at Jan 10, 2002 10:11:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I think you'll agree with him the moment you end up with > a cheap 160 GB drive in your machine and the old driver > (which is limited to 32(?)-bit LBA) won't let you use a > large portion of the disk ;) Its also the only thing that is stable on my highpoint secondary controllers - 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/