Is this specific to 2.4.X kernels? I'm running 2.5.0, and I just noticed that the 160 gig drives I was using are also partitioned at only 128Gigs. -John Moser -----Original Message----- From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On Behalf Of Andreas Dilger Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:18 PM To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. On Feb 07, 2002 22:33 +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote: > [ Re: IDE 128GB disk limits ] > > now, I've added SCSI-devices that where > 500GiB with ease into LVM, > but here I stumble. is there some easy solution out there that I've > missed? > > the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1 > from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will be > highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and > stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat. This is a kernel IDE driver limit. You need to patch with Andre Hedrik's IDE patches to support IDE devices over this size. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
