Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-25 Thread Joel Jaeggli
75GB 80GB 180GB all work fine... your issues are: location of kernel, below 8GB until you have the chance to turn on lba32 in your lilo.conf... 2GB filesize limit bites people who use large disks more often (well at least in my app), use reiserfs. joelja On Fri, 25 May 2001, Greg Johnson

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Frazer
Greg Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01/05/25 08:51]: > Have you experienced any issues like this? > Have you successfuly built a kernel that booted on these machines? I'm also a user of the machine Scott mentioned. We're booting it off of a smaller scsi disk, not the 76G disks. The disks are

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-25 Thread Rico Tudor
I'm running stock 2.4.4 on five PCs with these features: ServerWorks III HE, 2x 933MHz, 4GB RAM, dual-channel sym53c896 (FAST-40 WIDE) SCSI controller. One PC has the new 181GB Seagate SCSI drive; another uses a 3ware RAID controller with 4x 40GB IDE (looks like a 160GB SCSI drive). All is fine

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-25 Thread Greg Johnson
Thanks. Interesting that you mention the Severworks LE chipset. We have 2 identical machines with the intel STL MOBO wich uses the Severworks LE. They are both dual PIII 1GHz 1GB mem and ultra 160 drives. I have had nothing but trouble getting RedHat 7.1 beta-1, 7.1 beta-2 and 7.1 release. The OS

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-25 Thread Greg Johnson
Thanks. Interesting that you mention the Severworks LE chipset. We have 2 identical machines with the intel STL MOBO wich uses the Severworks LE. They are both dual PIII 1GHz 1GB mem and ultra 160 drives. I have had nothing but trouble getting RedHat 7.1 beta-1, 7.1 beta-2 and 7.1 release. The OS

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-25 Thread Rico Tudor
I'm running stock 2.4.4 on five PCs with these features: ServerWorks III HE, 2x 933MHz, 4GB RAM, dual-channel sym53c896 (FAST-40 WIDE) SCSI controller. One PC has the new 181GB Seagate SCSI drive; another uses a 3ware RAID controller with 4x 40GB IDE (looks like a 160GB SCSI drive). All is fine

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Frazer
Greg Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01/05/25 08:51]: Have you experienced any issues like this? Have you successfuly built a kernel that booted on these machines? I'm also a user of the machine Scott mentioned. We're booting it off of a smaller scsi disk, not the 76G disks. The disks are

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-25 Thread Joel Jaeggli
75GB 80GB 180GB all work fine... your issues are: location of kernel, below 8GB until you have the chance to turn on lba32 in your lilo.conf... 2GB filesize limit bites people who use large disks more often (well at least in my app), use reiserfs. joelja On Fri, 25 May 2001, Greg Johnson

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-24 Thread Scott Murray
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Greg Johnson wrote: > Hi kernel poeple, > > Can anyone out there say for certain that 76GB SCSI disks should > just work with kernel versions 2.2 and/or 2.4? We need to get some > big disk space and have heard reports of problems with disks > bigger than 30GB under linux. I

Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-24 Thread Greg Johnson
Hi kernel poeple, Can anyone out there say for certain that 76GB SCSI disks should just work with kernel versions 2.2 and/or 2.4? We need to get some big disk space and have heard reports of problems with disks bigger than 30GB under linux. Thanks. Greg. --

Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-24 Thread Greg Johnson
Hi kernel poeple, Can anyone out there say for certain that 76GB SCSI disks should just work with kernel versions 2.2 and/or 2.4? We need to get some big disk space and have heard reports of problems with disks bigger than 30GB under linux. Thanks. Greg. --

Re: Big-ish SCSI disks

2001-05-24 Thread Scott Murray
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Greg Johnson wrote: Hi kernel poeple, Can anyone out there say for certain that 76GB SCSI disks should just work with kernel versions 2.2 and/or 2.4? We need to get some big disk space and have heard reports of problems with disks bigger than 30GB under linux. I set