Anders wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Hard drive limitations' on Sun, Oct 31 at 08:21:
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?
It's a limit for old IDE controllers. ATA/ATAPI 6 (which is the 100MB/s standard, AKA UDMA/100 or ATA/100) expanded LBA from 28 bits to 48 bits. The old 28-bit LBA limited drives to 137GB, but anyone with a 100MB/s or faster controller should be able to use the new big ATA drives. --Danny