[linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.

Andreas Dilger adilger at turbolabs.com
Thu Feb 7 16:18:02 UTC 2002


On Feb 07, 2002  22:33 +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>   [ Re: IDE 128GB disk limits ]
> 
>   now, I've added SCSI-devices that where > 500GiB with ease into LVM,
>   but here I stumble.  is there some easy solution out there that I've
>   missed?
> 
>   the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1
>   from 26/11.  patches or anything people want to toss at this will be
>   highly appreciated.  we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and
>   stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat.

This is a kernel IDE driver limit.  You need to patch with Andre Hedrik's
IDE patches to support IDE devices over this size.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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