Re: 2.4.19 IDE Partition Check issue

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 01:52:11 EST


On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:

>
> Alan wrote:
> > The Promise stuff is fixed in -ac and was exactly this issue. LBA48 is
> > not supported by the earlier promise controllers. The highpoint may well
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I planned to do a massive disk replace/relocate action on my machines
> soon and part of the plan is having a 160GB Maxtor in some machines.
> Got scared by statement above .. :-)
>
> I got myself a 2.4.19-ac3 tree, looked around in the IDE code and wasn't
> able to find the answer for my questions:
>
> Any chance of lba48 working on a:
>
> - Promise Ultra66 (PDC20262: chipset revision 1) ?

Yes if BIOS is updated.

> - Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (On P-III BX-chipset mobo) ?

Yes confirmed from Intel, their T13 representative.

> - Intel 82371FB PIIX IDE [Triton I] (rev 02) (On P-I Triton I mobo) ?

NO confirmed from Intel, their T13 representative, untested in Linux

> greetings,
> Rob van Nieuwkerk
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Andre Hedrick
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