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ide-disk patch for big drives in old bioses for 2.4.19 kernel

DISCUSSION Josep Lladonosa i Capell 1 participant 1 message Oct 18, 2002

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To Eric Lammerts (or anyone interested in...)

some time ago, you sent a patch for ide-disk.c to perform SET_MAX command to use big ide disks with old
bioses. It applied against 2.4.18pre1 and 2.5.2pre2.

Any new patch for 2.4.19? It seems it changed, or... is that 'matter' already implemented in newer kernels?
By taking a look at ide-disk.c, it talks about now using LBA instead of CHS, and 48 bit,...

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Salutacions...Josep
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