[vdr] Re: AW: Maxtor 160 GB

["Ralf Spitzauer" <ralf@spitzauer.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carsten.Koch@icem.de [mailto:Carsten.Koch@icem.de]
> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 1:39 AM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: AW: Maxtor 160 GB
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> Marco wrote:
> ...
> > Well, at last, I bought a Promise Ultra 133 IDE controller for 78 EUR
> > (www.kmelektronik.de). Now the harddisks were correct identified (as
> > 157GB disks).
> > Now the next problem: the kernel does not support the Promise Ultra 133
> > :)
> > I tried the ide patches from Hedrick with kernel 2.4.17, but does now
> > work.
> > But since 2.4.18 is the driver for this promise included.
> >
> > I use at the moment kernel 2.4.18-ac2 and it is stabile.
> >
> > For everyone, who wants to buy a 160GB disk (or more than 137GB) ->
> > first check you controller :)
>
> A new controller is NOT needed, you only need the 48-bit
> LBA kernel patch (or a kerner that has 48-bit LBA already).
> Marco, you wasted your 78 EUR. With the patch, the 160GB
> disk works full size on most newer controllers.
>
I ´haven´t install such a patch but I have full capacity (153GB in
KdiskFree) with Kernel 2.4.10
Do I need the patch or a newer kernel?

> I also tried a very old Promise Ultra66 controller.
> While the correct disk size was detected and could be
> used in full, I had occasional data errors using the
> newer Ultra133 120GB and 160GB disks on the Ultra66
> controller.
> So I strongly recommend to run a disk test that writes
> and verifies every byte and uses different contents.
> badblocks was not able to find these errors, so I wrote
> my own test which did find the problem.
>
Where I can find such a disk test?

> Carsten.
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