[linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.
John Moser
jmoser at erc.wisc.edu
Thu Feb 7 16:42:02 UTC 2002
Is this specific to 2.4.X kernels? I'm running 2.5.0, and I just noticed
that the 160 gig drives I was using are also partitioned at only 128Gigs.
-John Moser
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-lvm-admin at sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin at sistina.com]On
Behalf Of Andreas Dilger
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:18 PM
To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.
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
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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