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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