Q: IDE LBA48

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Thu Jan 31 09:06:42 EST 2002


I want to use some 160GB IDE disks which need LBA48. I do not care
much for the ATA-133 part.

Does LBA48 need new IDE controllers or is it just a kernel issue?
I thought the IDE chip handles the physical layer and the LBA
protocol is built on top of it by software.

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>




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