[ale] My Next Computer

[Greg Freemyer]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:10:19 -0500, Keith R. Watson
<keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> >  Warning to all, FAT32 in the 2.4 kernels from SUSE 8.1 were buggy if
> >you went past 137 GB.  (I don't know if that is a device, or partition
> >issue.  I tested a 250GB disk with a single 250GB partition.  Worked
> >fine until I put too much data on it.)
> 
> A corrupted disk when the data exceeds 137GB sounds like a 48-bit LBA problem.
> 
> keith
> 

If you are talking about the IDE controller not supporting 48-bit LBA
and thus wrapping on itself, then I have seen that problem as well,
but not in this case.

The problem I had was exclusive to FAT32 under 2.4.x.  ie. I used the
same hardware, but with ext2 and it worked fine.

Also, with 2.6.8 from SUSE 9.2 and the same hardware, it worked fine with FAT32.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer