From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:11:36 +0100

Christian Mahr wrote:
> Question: is the limitation to 137Gbyte in The Archos Recorder 20 a physical
> limitation or would it be possible to implement 48 bit addressing?

Yes, it's physical. The USB ATA bridge chip can't do 48-bit addressing.
The Rockbox ATA driver can easily be adapted to 48-bit addressing, but
you won't be able to transfer any files via USB. :-(

Linus
Received on 2005-11-13