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    SubjectRe: very large ide disk/IBM-DPTA-353750 problem
    	From: Stefan Eilemann <Stefan.Eilemann@simpack.de>
    To: drive@sg.ibm.com, linux-kernel@magic.metawire.com
    Subject: very large ide disk/IBM-DPTA-353750 problem

    i recently bought the above harddisk as a backup medium for our
    fileserver running Linux 2.2.12. After reading a lot of information
    (howto, web, mailing lists), i am still not able to set up the partion
    table correctly. The maximum size i get of the harddisk (whole device)
    is 5.2 GB. According to
    http://ldp.kubota.com.au/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk-4.html
    there was a 33.8 GB Limit in August 1999. Exist this limit still today?
    Are there any workarounds, patches or a possibility to access only
    33.8 GB?

    You need not complain to drive@sg.ibm.com - IBM made beautiful disks,
    it is just that our IDE code was a bit naive and stored a number of
    cylinders in a short.
    Several patches exist - some were posted here on linux-kernel -
    but maybe the appropriate thing would be to try Linux 2.3.18ac9
    or so first. Please report on success.




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