Re: Maximu hard disk capcity supported by Redhat 5.2?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 16:57:30 EST


> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > For IDE, and the one you are most likely to hit, the geometry code of Linux
> > < 2.2.14 gets a bit interesting when you have >32Gig disks.
>
> We have a couple of 37G IBM disks under 2.2.10 and 2.2.14. What's the catch?

The catch is that you may need to explain the geometry to the machine forcibly
- yes you can do it, and 2.2.14 will get it right anyway but the default
2.2.10 guess at the geometry won't work

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