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Re: HD size limit ?



On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:58:33AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> 
> Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can
> accomodate?
> 
> I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives.  I
> just want to make sure I'm not buying something that I cannot use
> 'easily'.

IIRC, the upper limit with 2.4 kernels is 32-bit sector addressing:
512*2^32=2TB, which is far above the largest HDDs you can buy today, but
within the range of reason for RAID arrays.  I'm fairly sure even this
limit has been removed in 2.5 though.

-rob

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