----- Original Message ----- From: "CaT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> 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.