[linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.
Andreas Dilger
adilger at turbolabs.com
Thu Feb 7 16:18:02 UTC 2002
On Feb 07, 2002 22:33 +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> [ Re: IDE 128GB disk limits ]
>
> now, I've added SCSI-devices that where > 500GiB with ease into LVM,
> but here I stumble. is there some easy solution out there that I've
> missed?
>
> the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1
> from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will be
> highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and
> stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat.
This is a kernel IDE driver limit. You need to patch with Andre Hedrik's
IDE patches to support IDE devices over this size.
Cheers, Andreas
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