Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd)

[Jim Crilly]

Actually it would seem this is just Andre's, not so subtle, way of 
trying to prove that his ATA133/48-bit addressing patches need included 
in 2.4.

-Jim

Chris Ball wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:14:32PM -0700, Benjamin S Carrell wrote:
> 
>>I would think that you lose that space to formatting
>>
> 
> That would be irrelevant.  We're looking at the kernel's summation of
> the geometry, not the filesystem's description of usable space.
> 
> 
>>(would it not get the size of the drive from the bios?)
>>
> 
> No, the kernel tends not to rely on the BIOS for geometry.  Which is
> usually very wise.
> 
> 
>>but I stand open for correction.
>>
> 
> Same here.  It's always a good idea.  :-)
> 
> Is this perhaps Maxtor providing their own 'non-standard'[1] definition
> of gigabyte, rather than a technical issue?
> 
> - Chris.
> 
> [1]: (viz. 'wrong')
>