Re: SATA HD 137GB limitation?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 12:12:53 EST


On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:17:36PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> system:
>
> MB: intel D865PERL
> maxtor 250GB SATA drive (not a boot drive)
> kernel 2.4.21-ac4
> debian unstable
>
> normal kernels up to 2.4.21 freeze during HD detection, only
> 2.4.21-ac4 properly detects the drive. All programs (mkfs, badblocks,
> cfdisk) recognize it as 250GB drive but none of them can read anything
> beyond 137GB. All programs (that I tried) report read failure when
> sectors above 137GB are being read.
>
> anybody knows the status of SATA driver(s)?

Is this with CONFIG_SCSI_ATA or drivers/ide driver?

        Jeff

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