Re: very large ide disk/IBM-DPTA-353750 problem

Rui Sousa (rsousa@grad.physics.sunysb.edu)
Fri, 01 Oct 1999 13:36:51 -0400

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Stefan Eilemann wrote:
>
> fooling the partition table doesnt work, when i copy data to the disk
> i get attempt to access beyond end of device errors.
> Stefan

Just browsed trough the Large disk mini-howto and it seems
disks > 34GB do represent a real problem and can't be
handled by the kernel (the document dates from 9/12/1999).
Apparently there is a patch available.( Can someone tell were?)

Rui Sousa

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