max ext2 partition

I've been doing some Linux on some bigger HD's lately. Seems like the
largest partition ext2 can support is 8gigs. Am I stuck with this or is
there a trick to creating a larger partition that I don't know about? Is
there a way to connect two drives together as one logical partition? I
wan't to create the biggest partition I can in Linux with the utilities
that come with the a standard Linux distro.

Don