Re: 137GB HD limit?

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/22/03

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    To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: 22 Jul 2003 04:30:03 -0500

    On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 03:53, Erik Steffl wrote:
    > Is there a 137GB HD limit in linux kernel? It looks like I can only
    > access about that much of 250GB SATA (Serial ATA drive).
    >
    > googled & searched lkml but found nothing conclusive, there are some
    > emails about problems with 137+ GB HDs. Anybody knows what's going on?
    >
    > BTW this is on debian unstable with 2.4.21-ac4 kernel (that's the one
    > that has SATA driver), MB is intel D865PERL, Maxtor SATA HD (250GTB).
    >
    > YABTW I checked the drive under windows and it seems to be working
    > correctly (after I got SP1 for windows XP which has support for 137+ GB
    > drives)

    Parallel ATA drives plugged into ATA/133 controllers burst the 137GB
    limit back around -18. 

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