RE: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk

Sean Goodman (sgoodman@calltech.com)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:56:38 -0500

Do'h! I didn't know that. If this is true, I apologize to
everyone for not reading the updates. I was afraid to use
a possibly non-stable development kernel...but now I am not
afraid! :) I guess I just need to read more, and learn more
quickly.

I am terribly sorry for spelling Andries' name wrong!

--Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guest section DW [mailto:dwguest@win.tue.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 2:50 PM
> To: Sean Goodman; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 01:44:23PM -0500, Sean Goodman wrote:
>
> > I've searched for the past three days on-line about this issue,
> > as I just purchased a 36.2GB Maxtor drive, and came across the
> > 33.8GB limitation due to the short int problem. I've been
> > attempting to get Andreas' patch to work, but with no success,
>
> s/Andreas/Andries/ ?
>
> > on RedHat 2.2.12. For one thing, should I be applying this
> > patch to the original 2.2.12 kernel without the RedHat kernel
> > mods, or does that not matter.
>
> Patching a non-vanilla kernel is your own risk.
> But why not use 2.2.14pre - it comes with this patch already?
>

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