ReactOS Large Disk support

[David Eckert]

I think the lack of large disk support is a real problem here, people
who download and burn the  Live CD for example, MUST disconnect there
large hard drives (2GB or higher),  I would STRONGLY urge the
development of large disk support to fix this problem, plus it would
also get to the issue of actually installing on new machines which
have no smaller hard drives on them.

Best regards,

David W. Eckert

[David Johnson]

Please. :)

On 6/6/05, David Eckert [e-mail] wrote:
> I think the lack of large disk support is a real problem here, people
> who download and burn the  Live CD for example, MUST disconnect there
> large hard drives (2GB or higher),  I would STRONGLY urge the
> development of large disk support to fix this problem, plus it would
> also get to the issue of actually installing on new machines which
> have no smaller hard drives on them.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David W. Eckert
>
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[Hartmut Birr]

David Eckert wrote:
> I think the lack of large disk support is a real problem here, people
> who download and burn the  Live CD for example, MUST disconnect there
> large hard drives (2GB or higher),  I would STRONGLY urge the
> development of large disk support to fix this problem, plus it would
> also get to the issue of actually installing on new machines which
> have no smaller hard drives on them.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David W. Eckert

What do you mean? ReactOS supports large disks.It exist no reason to
disconnect a disk.

- Hartmut

[James Tabor]

David Eckert wrote:
> I think the lack of large disk support is a real problem here, people
> who download and burn the  Live CD for example, MUST disconnect there
> large hard drives (2GB or higher),  I would STRONGLY urge the
> development of large disk support to fix this problem, plus it would
> also get to the issue of actually installing on new machines which
> have no smaller hard drives on them.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David W. Eckert

Please need more info. I tested Ros with 120G, it did not have a problem.
Even the ultra test, build Ros on Ros with a 120G.
James

[TwoTailedFox]

He's probably referring to drives >137GB.

Although I do recall seeing that ROS supported LBA48.

On 6/6/05, James Tabor
[e-mail] wrote:
> David Eckert wrote:
> > I think the lack of large disk support is a real problem here, people
> > who download and burn the  Live CD for example, MUST disconnect there
> > large hard drives (2GB or higher),  I would STRONGLY urge the
> > development of large disk support to fix this problem, plus it would
> > also get to the issue of actually installing on new machines which
> > have no smaller hard drives on them.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > David W. Eckert
>
> Please need more info. I tested Ros with 120G, it did not have a problem.
> Even the ultra test, build Ros on Ros with a 120G.
> James
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[James Tabor]

Hi!
TwoTailedFox wrote:
> He's probably referring to drives >137GB.
>
> Although I do recall seeing that ROS supported LBA48.

Hartmut had a patch and committed code to support >120G drives. The only thing I
can think of is serial IDE or a Raid card that might have problems with our
atapi (my back starts to hurt) driver. Until David provides more information all
we can do is guess.
James