Well, at the time it was not pointless. You were proving out the higher capacity drives with the new hijack kernels.

Edit: Found it. It was around version 274 where you added lba48 support directly into the hijack kernel for supporting drives larger than 128GB. Given that the largest laptop drives were about 80GB at the time, it was the only way you could test. Now, with the 160GB drives out there (waiting for the price to come down before even contemplating any upgrades...), it becomes a much more immediate feature!