Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:11:07 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) |
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Jim Crilly wrote:
> Actually it would seem this is just Andre's, not so subtle, way of > trying to prove that his ATA133/48-bit addressing patches need > included in 2.4.
I think you'll agree with him the moment you end up with a cheap 160 GB drive in your machine and the old driver (which is limited to 32(?)-bit LBA) won't let you use a large portion of the disk ;)
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