Re: Hard Drive Limitations

[John L Fjellstad <john-debian@fjellstad.org>]

Marco Paganini <paganini-debian-lists@paganini.net> writes:

> I've seen strange problems with big hard drives and 2.4.18.  Actually, I lost
> an entire hard-drive because I partitioned and created the fs under knoppix
> (2.4.22), but was using the system under stable (2.4.18). It seems like,
> somehow, 2.4.18 will not recognize more than 137GB (dmesg | grep hd will tell
> you). In my case, upgrading the kernel to (at the time) 2.4.22 resolved the
> problem nicely.

If I remember correctly, 2.4.19 or later supported bigger hds than 137
GB.  One of the reason Tivo systems (that has a 2.4.18 kernel, I think)
have a limit of two 137 or less hds (unless you want to upgrade the
kernel).

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