bug#312: marked as done (48bit IDE)

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Package: kernel/linux

This is from my friend Ryan who was trying out lnx-bbc.  All of this is
after mount -o remount,rw of the partition in question.

[root@lnx-bbc:/mnt/rw/discs/disc0/part5]# ls -lsa
total 682626719
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 2 15:16 .
0 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Feb 3 20:56 ..
16 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 1 15:43 lost+found
682626699 --wxr----- 24803 1243186384 4116320842 13084296320783990043 Aug 2 2017 mirrors

10:52 <@   fo0bar> there's a 160GB HD on that machine, and the installed
    OS had kernel 2.4.19.  but when I booted into lnx-bbc and started
    mounting/writing to partitions on that drive, it fucked up the
    partitions.  the version I was running was kernel 2.4.18, which did
    not have proper 48-bit IDE support, meaning it failed after the
    first 137GB

Heather has looked into this on google and there was some talk about
this on LKML last year.  Apparently there is a back ported patch for
2.4.18 as well.

Our options:

* document it as a bug in the lnx-bbc
* wrap mount so that the first time it is run it yells and screams
  "WATCH OUT!"
* apply the back ported patch

Opinions? Ideas?

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From: Dave Barry <[email protected]>
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Subject: Linux 2.4.19 solves 48-bit IDE problem
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The BBC now boots linux 2.4.19, which includes support for 48-bit
addressing on ATA hard drives.  These changes were folded in in linux
2.4.19-pre3.


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