Phillip R. Jaenke writes: > Dan Green wrote: > > We have a 37 gig drive in an Apple [... deletia ...] > > i'm more inclined to believe this is an error with ide before the > kernel.
The problem is a non-ppc-specific kernel problem, caused by the failure to properly handle "ide growing pains." 8-) See the Large Disk HOWTO at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html The note on the Linux 65536 cylinder limit (aka the 33.8 GB limit) gives a specific explanation as to the nature of the problem: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.1 The above does indicate that the relevant patches were folded into the linux kernel as of 2.3.21. FWIW, I'm running a 2.2.13 SMP linux box with an IBM 34 GB drive by virtue of Andre Hedrick's IDE patches, available in incarnations for various stock kernel versions at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ NOTE: I have no idea whether any of these patches will apply to any given version of a PPC linux kernel, much less work, nor do I know of anyone who has tried. That said.. good luck! 8-) -- John
