Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
- Original Message - From: "CaT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, 03 April, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Big hard drive - not recognised > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wrote: > > This is on.. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > > Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown > > unknown GNU/Linux > > > > Any ideas? > > I think your kernel is pre-137MB barrier fix (not too sure as to the > exact version this got fixed in). Try 2.4.20. > I think 2.4.19 works too... we use that, and we've never had any issue with the ATA limitation. I think these newer kernels have a workaround. I'm sure the patch can be backported to older versions if you really want, but I'm not familiar with that.
Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
- Original Message - From: "CaT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 03 April, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Big hard drive - not recognised > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wrote: > > This is on.. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > > Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown > > unknown GNU/Linux > > > > Any ideas? > > I think your kernel is pre-137MB barrier fix (not too sure as to the > exact version this got fixed in). Try 2.4.20. > I think 2.4.19 works too... we use that, and we've never had any issue with the ATA limitation. I think these newer kernels have a workaround. I'm sure the patch can be backported to older versions if you really want, but I'm not familiar with that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:14 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], mimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but > couldn't find anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives > in the machine - 200 Gig each. > > so the kernel detects it as 137 MB only ATA limitation. You can see www.t13.org for more info. I do not know what Linux is doing on this, perhaps lkml will help? -- Sanjeev
Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
okay - I just read: "For large IDE disks (over 137 GB): make sure your kernel is 2.4.19/2.5.3 or later." in the Large Disk HOWTO http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-1.html Sorry - this works fine Michael mimo wrote: I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but couldn't find anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives in the machine - 200 Gig each. dmesg: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 PIIX4: chipset revision 5 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0, ATA DISK drive *snipsnip* ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63 hdb: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63 so the kernel detects it as 137 MB only This is on.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Any ideas? Michael Moritz
Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wrote: > This is on.. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown > unknown GNU/Linux > > Any ideas? I think your kernel is pre-137MB barrier fix (not too sure as to the exact version this got fixed in). Try 2.4.20. -- Martin's distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some of his fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. "The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal Ryan Dupre. "I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him." - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2479.htm
Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:14 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], mimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but > couldn't find anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives > in the machine - 200 Gig each. > > so the kernel detects it as 137 MB only ATA limitation. You can see www.t13.org for more info. I do not know what Linux is doing on this, perhaps lkml will help? -- Sanjeev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
okay - I just read: "For large IDE disks (over 137 GB): make sure your kernel is 2.4.19/2.5.3 or later." in the Large Disk HOWTO http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-1.html Sorry - this works fine Michael mimo wrote: I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but couldn't find anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives in the machine - 200 Gig each. dmesg: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 PIIX4: chipset revision 5 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0, ATA DISK drive *snipsnip* ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63 hdb: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63 so the kernel detects it as 137 MB only This is on.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Any ideas? Michael Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big hard drive - not recognised
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wrote: > This is on.. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown > unknown GNU/Linux > > Any ideas? I think your kernel is pre-137MB barrier fix (not too sure as to the exact version this got fixed in). Try 2.4.20. -- Martin's distress was in contrast to the bitter satisfaction of some of his fellow marines as they surveyed the scene. "The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal Ryan Dupre. "I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him." - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2479.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]