Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:49:57 +0100


On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 01:44:23PM -0500, Sean Goodman wrote:

> I've searched for the past three days on-line about this issue,
> as I just purchased a 36.2GB Maxtor drive, and came across the
> 33.8GB limitation due to the short int problem. I've been
> attempting to get Andreas' patch to work, but with no success,

s/Andreas/Andries/ ?

> on RedHat 2.2.12. For one thing, should I be applying this
> patch to the original 2.2.12 kernel without the RedHat kernel
> mods, or does that not matter.

Patching a non-vanilla kernel is your own risk.
But why not use 2.2.14pre - it comes with this patch already?

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