4g partition limit on IDE but not SCSI?

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:22:19 -0800 (PST)

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I recently purchased a 6g IDE drive, and attempted to install redhat 5 on
it. I made a 16mb /boot partition (for the kernel, where redhat puts it)
and made the / partition the remaining 6g or so. mke2fs would always blow
up around the 4g mark, so I ended up having to break the partition into
several <4g parts.

This problem doesnt seem to affect SCSI, where I am routinely able to
mke2fs 11gb partitions.

Is this an e2fs limitation, ide limitation, kernel limitation, or what?

-Dan

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