Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:43:45 -0600
Tom Georgoulias <tom.georgoulias@motorola.com> wrote:

# Does anyone have any success stories with using larger IDE disks, 
# specifically 160GB or more, with a PCI IDE controller card?
# 
# I was interested in using a Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE card and
# attaching four Maxtor 160GB disks, but a search for the card on the
# hardware compatibility list at Red Hat produced no hits.  The support
# section of Promise's website show patches for the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19
# kernels.
# 
# 
# Are those patches, or functional equivalents, already rolled into the 
# stock Red Hat kernel?

You would need support for LBA-48.  I'm not sure if such support exists
in Red Hat's version of the Linux kernel.

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