On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:11:03AM -0700, Robert Wagner wrote: | The limitation is function of the file system. Ext2, | and better, has a limitation measured in terabytes.
ATA/33 -> ATA/100 can handle up to 137GB or so. Above that you need ATA/133. But 120GB drives work just fine in Linux, with ATA/33, 66 or 100 (I've used all three combinations.) One thing that does not seem to work fine -- I made a 120GB fat32 partition so that both Windows and Linux could use it. Windows couldn't create it, but mkdosfs did just fine. For the most part, it works, but I occasionally get errors, and Windows 98 cannot scandisk/chkdsk it (says there's not enough memory.) W2K can, however. The errors are FAT related, so are probably related to something wrong with mkdosfs. Next time, I'll have to either buy the `ext2fs for Windows' product and use ext2fs, or just use smaller fat32 partitions (small enough that WIndows will create it.) | > Wei-shi Tsai wrote: | > > I was talking with some people and they were asking about using | > > 120GB hard drives under Linux. I was wondering how well Linux | > > supports such drives and larger. -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you hate it when your train of thought derails? _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
