* warning GMail reply-to *
Ok so I have just bought a 80GB HDD to migrate /home to my 8GB disk is
now bursting at the seams, my NFS server is a PII 350 on an
Asus-P2B-VM not the most recent vintage.
Putting the HDD into the machine, BIOS can not autodetect the drive,
and the machine will not boot.
The HDD has a "Compatibility mode" where I can puit an extra jumper on
the back which reduces capacity to 32GB, with this jumper on the
machines BIOS can detect the drive and sucessfully boot.
I get the following output from dmesg
hdc: max request size: 1024KiB
hdc: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 66055248 sectors (33820 MB)
native capacity is 156368016 sectors (80060 MB)
hdc: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: unknown partition table
I can also tell the machine to not probe the secondary IDE channel,
remove the extra jumper and interestingly enough Linux can see the
full capacity.
hdc: max request size: 1024KiB
hdc: 156368016 sectors (80060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: unknown partition table
Before I partition the drive, my questions for the list,
1. Is it safe to use the drive at full capacity, I will never be
booting from this drive? O this motherboard. I plan long term to pick
up a PIII chip and motherboard from Broker when they get one in, which
should support the larger drive.
2. What file system do people reccomend for /home reiser, xfs, other?
Am currently using ext3 but have seen various religious flame wars on
the topic and would like some pointers and this is my experience type
discussion.
Regards,
Mark Carey
