[linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.

[Andreas Dilger]

On Feb 07, 2002  16:45 -0600, John Moser wrote:
> 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.

The IDE stuff didn't go into the 2.5 tree until 2.5.2-something.

> Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Feb 07, 2002  22:33 +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> >   [ Re: IDE 128GB disk limits ]
> 
> 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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