On Jul 23, 2002 13:12 +0000, Ian Leonard wrote: > The app was behaving badly but the source of the corruption was > due to the use of a 160Gb Maxtor disk. > > However, FYI, the problem still exists. If you write constantly > to a partition (in this case I just wrote to the partition without > a filesystem), it will reach about 137GB (from memory), wrap > and destroy the first partition. That is because IDE disks have a addressing limit at 137GB. You need to have "48-bit" support in order to use such a large disk. > I note from the kernel archive that this problem should be fixed > in the next release. However 2.4.19-rc1 still does it. I need to > check further - maybe the fix is in the ac branch. Either you need to enable the 48-bit option, or it is possible that this patch is not yet in the kernel. Try the -ac branch - it has most of the IDE fixes included. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
