Should I hold out for Civilme to write the Maxtor
Controller Card install? The Maxtor card does UDMA
100, right? I understand that the 3ware only goes up
to UDMA 66. Will these burst rates make an important
difference if I plan to use RAID 0?
--- "B.V.L.S.Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I dont think it will be a problem...
> except take care that while partitioning ,
> the /boot partitioning ,
> the cylinder numbering should not exceed 1024..
> ofcourse this partitioning logic is a bit old...
> thats all...everything else will fit ..well..
> may be present boot loaders will take care of
> the higher numbers....I dont know..
> atleast upto 40GB I dont have any problems...
>
> prasad
>
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Todd Flinders wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100
> hard
> > drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give
> 30
> > gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux.
> >
> > Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any
> > necessary partitioning or parameters to allow
> Linux to
> > see the 90 gigs? Do I need to do anything special
> to
> > install the 3ware controller card? I believe the
> > driver for this card is built into the kernel.
> >
> > I will be using Linux Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack.
> >
> > Thanks so much for the help. I'd love to avoid a
> > headache ahead of time.
> >
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