Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:46:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:45:55 -0500 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:34777 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:45:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:45:05 +0100 From: David Weinehall To: Alan Cox Cc: Rik van Riel , Jim Crilly , Chris Ball , Benjamin S Carrell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) Message-ID: <20020110134504.E5235@khan.acc.umu.se> In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:40:40PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:40:40PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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 What is, the new or the old driver? Regards: David Weinehall _ _ // David Weinehall /> Northern lights wander \\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/