Re: large disk woe under debian installation
kernels under some versions of 2.4.XX don't have suport for LBA 48 (48 bits of
adressinfg space), they only support 28 bits of addressing(129Gb).
if you compile the 2.4.27 or some of 2.6.XX you will have suport for large
disks.
there is a thread in this list that explanes this... if you want to read more
about it
Tuesday 09 November 2004 19:18, linux wrote:
> Firstly, apologies that I have seen some discussion on the newsgroups of
> this already but much of it goes over my head so please be gentle with me!
>
> I've a new PC, that has 2 Xeon chips and a 250Gb Western Digital hard
> drive. It came with a 32Gb NTFS partition with WinXP SP2 installed. From
> the WinXP boot I can see (hardware/device manager/IDE ATA/ATAPI
> controllers) that the controllers are:
> Intel 6300ESB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 25A2
> Intel 6300ESB Ultra ATA Storage/SATA Controller - 25A3
> (it also lists primary and seconary IDE channels (each twice for some
> reason)
>
> So, when I use the Debian 3.0r2 (woody) installation CDs it only shows
> 137Gb. I have noted that the discussion on the newsgroups discusses both
> different kernels and hardware. I'm not an expert on either, so please
> could somebody tell me (in simple terms!) what I should do? (Even if I
> could persuade the vendor to swap the 250Gb HD for 2 or 3 120Gb HDs I'll
> not sure if I'll have problems using several HDs!)
>
> Thanking you for your time and patience!
> Michael
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Rui Silva
ruka@tugamail.com
Debian GNU/Linux
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