Re: Hard Drive Limitations
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Gayle Lee Fairless (<fairless@HiWAAY.net>) wrote:
>
> > I'm using a Western Digital 160GB drive as a slave. The master is
> > an IBM 14 GB that holds Windnows 98SE. I put Debian GNU/Linux woody
> > 2.4.18 on the WD drive.
>
> And that works? As far as I know 2.4.18 does not support LBA48, which
> means that with the Woody kernels you cannot use the full size of that
> disk, because you are limited to 128 GB.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
>
I did not run into the 128 GB limitation because I partitioned the drive
into 6 partitions, none bigger than 40 GB. My smallest partition is 2 GB
as permitted by the Western Digital Data Lifeguard utility available off
their website. I got it because I was aware of the 64 GB limitation on
fdisk in Windows 98SE. My success is partly due to divine providence and
to some research.
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