Okay, while I was poking around I decided to add 48-bit LBA support to the IDE driver in the Hijack kernel. It will be present as of Hijack v274, for future use (no laptop drives are that huge yet).

What this means is, instead of the previous IDE drive 28-bit limit of 128GB per drive, the limit is now 32-bits for drives up to 2TB (tera bytes) in size, each. The 48-bit spec allows for drives up to 65536 times that 2TB limit, but all existing Linux kernels top out at 32-bit block numbering in the page/buffer/file systems.

So now the race is on.. who will be the first to attach a HUGE drive to their player..? (most likely Paul!)

Actually, now that I think about it, I suppose I could grab my 2.5/3.5 adaptor and plug this here Maxtor 160GB desktop drive in, just to test things.. MMm.. letmeseeifihavetherightpatchcablesforthis..