On Sunday, 31 October 2004 15.54, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:21:37 +0200, Anders Johansson
wrote: I have no problems with a parallell ATA 160GB drive, is this 128GB limit for serial ATA?
It is a ATA limit with both drivers and controller chips.
From what I have seen, if you have a ATA-100 controller, you will be
limited to 128/137 GB.
If you have a ATA-133 controller/drivers, you can see all of larger drives.
Thanks for this, great info. I don't have the docs for my motherboard anymore, but I thought for sure my controller was ATA-100, but evidently it must be 133
I have tried several different ATA-133 controllers, linux has supported them all. (Even older versions like SuSE 8.0).
Windows 2K needs extra drivers loaded. :)
FYI: I saw a dos-booted system that claimed to see a full 250GB SATA drive. As soon as the drive usage went past 128/137 GB, the drive "crashed". I was just observing, so I did not have the chance to test anything, but I suspect something in the dos driver wrapped and the filesystem became corrupted.
Ah yes, that's quality craftsmanship for you :)