RE: Question about 48 bit IDE on 2.4.18 kernel

Larry Hileman (LHileman@snapappliance.com)
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:35:02 -0800

Ok, from this information it would seem that the 2.4.18 kernel
will not support > 137G drives?

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:59 PM
To: Larry Hileman
Cc: Linux "Kernel "Maillist ""(E-mail)
Subject: RE: Question about 48 bit IDE on 2.4.18 kernel

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:51, Larry Hileman wrote:
> Do the 2.4.20/21 predrivers work on a 2.4.18 kernel?
> Or have they been back ported?

No and no. The newer IDE code has dependancies on the block layer
improvements.
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