Um, here I am. You shouldn't have any real trouble booting off your PCI card. As long as the BIOS sees it as a boot device you're in good hands. Linux will just see your drives as /dev/hde or higher. As for booting from SCSI it loads the drivers during the boot. The SCSI BIOS handles getting the drive going. Linux just needs to know where it is from there (ie: /dev/sda). As for attaining full UDMA 100, keep dreaming. Unless you're striping a couple drives with 8Mb cache you'll never see near that performance. Kbob achieved over 90Mb/s that way. On average a 2Mb cache drive will yield about 40Mb/s and an 8Mb cache drive will yield upwards of 60Mb/s by itself. As for myself, I'm using a huge 160GB drive and do use lba32 for booting since WinXP is on the first 30GB. If your BIOS actually sees 20GB then it should see at least 32GB. In most systems that was the next barrier after 8GB. You may just need to 'fdisk' the drive to see how much the OS sees and experiment.
That be all from me for now. Hope it's helpful. Mr O. --- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm. I've just never used a card to boot my systems. If > one has SCSI, > > how does Linux load the kernel if it needs SCSI drivers to > read from the > > device? I'd imagine a UDMA PCI card would be similar. > > Mr. O will eventually check his mail and tell us the right > answer, > but in the meantime, we amateurs get to guess. > > I don't think your PC is old enough to be limited to 20 GB > disks. > Check the Large Disk HOWTO, especially section 5.1, "LILO and > the > `lba32' and 'linear' options". Also see section 5.4. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
