Re: [SLE] Hard drive limitations

From: - Edwin - (copperwa11s_at_yahoo.co.jp)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:45:32 +0900
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    On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:21:37 +0200
    Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> wrote:

    > On Sunday, 31 October 2004 15.13, Dylan wrote:
    > > On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 14:57 pm, James Knott wrote:
    > > > Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
    > > > > Stupid question time. I could not find anything
    > > > > related in the FAQ or the hardware database online.
    > > > >
    > > > > Is the 128G (or 137G if you count like a hard drive
    > > > > manufacturer) ATA hard drive limitation a problem
    > > > > with the interface hardware or the software driver?
    > > > >
    > > > > So, if I get a 250G hard drive can I expect SuSE 9.2
    > > > > to be able to use all of it?
    > > > >
    > > > > On the assumption this is an interface problem is
    > > > > there a list of supported ATA interfaces/chipsets
    > > > > that SuSE 9.2 can use?
    > > >
    > > > That's a hard limit, unless the inteface changes to
    > > > include more than 28 sector address bits.
    > >
    > > If this is the case, how can manufacturers justify
    > > producing "250MB" IDE ATA dives?
    >
    > I have no problems with a parallell ATA 160GB drive, is
    > this 128GB limit for serial ATA?

    Hmm.. All I can say is, I have a 300GB S-ATA Maxtor drive and
    it's working (with no problems so far) with this Silicon
    Image chipset (?) that is on ASUS P4C800-Deluxe... Anyway,
    IOW, that's not a limit for S-ATA. 

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