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Subject: Re: >137Gbyte?

Re: >137Gbyte?

From: Claus Helbing <claus.news_at_schweiz.ch>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:40:00 +0100

Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
> 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. :-(

Just for curiosity (I do not suggest anything ;-) ...
Could 2 partitions and some changes in rockbox make use of disks with
more than 137 Gbytes?

If I remember correctly for the Ondio some kind of handling of
2 "partitions" has already been implemented...

Regards,
Claus
Received on 2005-11-13

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