Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
----- Original Message -----
From: "CaT" <cat@zip.com.au>
To: "mimo" <mimo@restoel.net>
Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, 03 April, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wrote:
> > This is on..
> > mimo@blue:~$ uname -a
> > Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
> > unknown GNU/Linux
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> I think your kernel is pre-137MB barrier fix (not too sure as to the
> exact version this got fixed in). Try 2.4.20.
>
I think 2.4.19 works too... we use that, and we've never had any issue
with the ATA limitation. I think these newer kernels have a workaround.
I'm sure the patch can be backported to older versions if you really want,
but I'm not familiar with that.
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