some motherboards will choke on disks larger than 137gb. i recall a 440bx board (with a p2-450, not really -that- old) i had a couple of years ago that refused to boot when a 200gb disk was plugged in. stuck it in a old dell p-133 and it worked fine. *shrug*
jason On Monday 20 December 2004 18:02, Rick DeNatale wrote: > Thanks Jason. > > But if I can believe what I'm reading in the Large Disk How-to > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html Linux should have no > problems anyway > > Quoting from Section 1: > > You need not read this HOWTO since there are no problems with large > > hard disks these days. > > > > Long ago, disks were large when they had a capacity larger than 528 > > MB, or than 8.4 GB, or than 33.8 GB. These days the interesting > > limit is 137 GB. In all cases, sufficiently recent Linux kernels > > handle the disk fine. > > ... > > > Advice > > > > For large SCSI disks: Linux has supported them from very early on. > > No action required. For large IDE disks (over 8.4 GB): make sure > > your kernel is 2.0.34 or later. For large IDE disks (over 33.8 GB): > > make sure your kernel is 2.0.39/2.2.14/2.3.21 or later. For large > > IDE disks (over 137 GB): make sure your kernel is 2.4.19/2.5.3 or > > later. > > RH 9 is kernel 2.4.20, I'm currently running 2.4.20-28.9smp > > It sounds as if none of the currently available disks should be a > problem for a linux only system, even with the mobo ide interfaces, > or am I missing something? > > So what I'm now thinking is that I'll get two 160GB drives, I was > looking at the Intrex site at the WD Caviars and they look like they > hit the right price performance point. > > At the same time I take the system down, I'll probably replace the > CD-ROM drive with a DVD-ROM drive that I've got lying around from a > salvaged machine. I think that it makes sense to put one of the IDE > hard drives and one of the optical drives on each IDE interface, > which seems as if it would give better performance for doing things > like copying CD/DVD ROMS directly between the optical drives. > > Does this make sense? > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:09:01 -0500, Jason Tower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you can add a pci ide controller card that supports ata/66, that'll > > get you around this issue easily, especially if you're booting off > > a scsi disk. i have several if you want to try one. > > > > jason > > > > On Monday 20 December 2004 17:01, Rick DeNatale wrote: > > > A few days ago I asked for Hard disk recommendations to add some > > > large hard disk(s) to my old IBM Intelistation M 6889. > > > > > > After trying to research IDE hard disks, I've gotten more and > > > more confused about the the size limits for IDE drives. > > > > > > I'm not sure how old this machine is, but it seems to have the > > > latest BIOS available which is dated May 12, 2000 (or at least > > > that's what the download page says, I haven't yet re-booted, > > > gotta keep uptime going!). This machine has both SCSI and IDE > > > interfaces. It's got two 9GB SCSI drives in it now but the only > > > IDE devices are a CD/ROM and a DVD Writer. > > > > > > So how do I figure out how big an IDE drive I can add to this > > > machine, before I spen>d my money? > > > > > > How do I verify what the BIOS supports? The Tech Ref says that > > > it supports LBA for drives bigger than 528 MB, which seems to > > > imply that it might well be limited to 120GB or less. > > > > > > Do I even need to worr>y about this. If I'm only running Linux I > > > understand that the kernel doesn't even use the BIOS is this > > > right? I figure that I'm going to > > keep the SCSI drives, and one of them will > > > > still be the boot device. > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational > > FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : > > http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring > > : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
