Re: [TCLUG:17336] Misbehaving Primary IDE

["Kevin R. Bullock" <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Seth I. Bernsen wrote:

> > There should be no reason any 2.2 kernel doesn't support that size drive...
> > I have a maxtor 30g running perfectly on my Asus P5A (and that's using the
> > notoriously buggy ALi IDE chipset!).
> 
> The following is a blurb from the Large-Disk-HOWTO-11:
<snip>
> ... The 2.2.14 kernels do support these disks...
<snip>

Okay, I stand corrected. Not all 2.2.x kernels support disks > 33.8G, but
the 2.2.1[45] kernels do.

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Kevin R. Bullock