On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:47:20AM +0100, Joseph Jones wrote: > Does such an animal exist? I'm thinking of setting an older box up as a > fileserver, but I need to know whether there're any kernel patches or > modules that allow the use of large HDDs (60GB) on older machines > *without* additonal hardware. ...
My motherboard = Chaintech 5IFM (09/1996) w/ AMD K5 133 MHz; I installed an IBM Deskstar (60 GB) as hda; I installed an IBM DAQA 33240 (6 GB) as hdb. my hdc is an "ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache" My Debian Woody didn't need any special configuration; my BIOS HD was set to LBA. As I am mostly interested in Linux, I installed my Windows 95 on the 1st partitions of both HD drives and on the last partition of hda, the rest is Linux. I fine tuned my disk drives in /etc/defaults/hdparm.sh: # --------------------------------------------------------------- # hdparm.sh Tune harddisc + cdrom \wwf 14.5.03 # # This prog should be called first from /etc/rcS.d # Common Params for both (technically similar) HDs /sbin/hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -X34 -k1 -m16 -u1 -S192 /dev/hda /dev/hdb # Params for CDROM /sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -X34 -k1 -u1 /dev/hdc # -A1 = set drive read-lookahead # -c1 = set IDE 32-bit IO setting # -d1 = set using_dma flag # -X34 = select multiword DMA mode2 # -k1 = keep_settings_over_reset flag # -m16 = set multiple sector count (hdparm -i -> MaxMultSect=16) # -u1 = set unmaskirq flag # -S192 = set spindown timeout = 192 * 5 sec == 16 min # --------------------------------------------------------------- This file is called up at earliest boot time through /etc/rcS.d/S05hdparm.sh -> ../init.d/hdparm.sh /etc/init.d/hdparm.sh: # --------------------------------------------------------------- #! /bin/sh # # hdparm.sh Tune harddisc + cdrom \wwf 14.5.03 # # This prog should be called first from /etc/rcS.d . /etc/default/hdparm.sh # --------------------------------------------------------------- (your mileage may vary) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
