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Drivers have existed for some chipsets for quite some time now.

And you can find the ATA drivers here. ;-)

from what i can tell, These guys are addressing that very issue, considering that they're an adopter of it.

Have you tried 3ware? They make IDE RAID cards that have linux driver support (in the 2.4 kernel). I'm not sure if their devices support the new 48bit LBA standard. They seem to be focusing more on their larger products but their RAID cards (which are used in their larger products so they shouldn't be going away any time soon) are here.

Promise has the FastTrak100 TX4 PCI that supposedly has four independent IDE channels (no slave/master crap, everything is master like 3ware products) so you have another option there with support for 48bit LBA in Promise drivers mentioned at linux-ide.org it sounds like a promising solution (no pun intended).

You could always put a couple Promise Ultra100's in there too - it sucks to waste PCI slots but with high end motherboards having onboard LAN, sound, etc I would expect that you have plenty of open slots. I've used both Promise Ultra/FastTrack products (with the kernel drivers, not Promises) and 3ware products and both are great.

From front page of linux-ide.org:
Leading the World to Announce Native 48bit LBA Support
Supporting Maxtor BIG DRIVE TECHNOLOGY
Releasing Support of new Promise Ultra 133 TX2 48bit HOST
Future Release Support of new Silicon Image's CMD 48bit HOST

Here is the location at RedHat where you can get the code and patch. Link found on The Linux IDE Project Site

I don't harbor any resentment against the guy, but this was bound to happen sooner or later. I'm sorry it had to turn out this way.

-anon
(yes, I have an account; no, I'm not going to use it here)

Sigh. Don't panic. There is a standard... Maxtor's 160GB drive conform to the (ratified?) ATA-6 48-bit LBA scheme.

The reason it is bundled with a new Promise controller is because the new drivers understand how to talk 48-bit LBAs.

All we need are new drivers; expect MS and Linux to support 48-bit LBAs soon. See http://www.linux-ide.org/

As for SCSI, remember it has a 32-bit LBA limit. (It isn't that simple, of course, there are other tricks SCSI can play.)

-AC

apcupsd has support for things like auto shutdown with APC UPSs under Linux (and I suppose it would work with BSD since it's all user space). You can get it here.

Well, if you run linux on consumer hardware, this guy is the one responmsible of the IDE drivers. Its web site is at www.linux-ide.org

Cheers,

--fred

There's really only one chipset worth having at the moment and that's the VIA KT133. Although the performance isn't fantastic, it's better than any of the alternatives until we start seeing DDR mobos hit the shelves (any time now, hopefully). The standard 2.2 series kernels are quite happy with them, and applying the IDE patches to the kernel will give you reasonable performance. The 2.4-test series have this built in. Of course, if you want 3D to work, that's a whole different kettle of fish :) .

Yeah, but for some Hardware RAID you need drivers. The Highpoint 370 IDE controller on the Abit KT7-RAID specifically.

http://www.linux-ide.org/ has the drivers for the Highpoint controller, and many other supplimentary IDE drivers.


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Indeed. I rarely post here to Slashdot, but I think that people should give more credit where credit is Due.

I'm an avid Debian GNU/Linux user (and I do intend to be a Debian Developer if I can in the near future), but I can't help but recognize all the good things that SuSE Linux has been paying kernel hackers for.

They seem to be incredibly commited to the Free Software movement, yet they get very little credit.

Indeed, people wouldn't have support for many high-end devices and methods if it were not for the support that SuSE is putting into Linux. I won't mention all them, but there are some of the things that I remember:

• Funding for development of drivers for X;
  
• Funding for development of ReiserFS;
  
• Funding for the Alsa Project;
  
• Funding for IDE/ATA Drivers.
  

Many people need those things (which shows the relevance of the support) and I'm sure that there are many other projects with which SuSE may be involved. Congratulations!

Roger...

The boot disks for Potato, the frozen (and soon to be next stable release) version of Debian include four different kernel configurations, including one with Andre Hendrik's IDE patch, which includes the Highpoint HPT366 controller that Abit's motherboard uses (and many others) as well a ton of other IDE controllers.