On Saturday 01 February 2003 21:20, civileme wrote:
> > > udma2 is safe--it is only 33Mhz which is in the range of 32-byte CRCs
> > > which the drives can do. The 57-byte CRCs required by udma3 and up
> > > 66-133MHz are beyond the capabilities of the 102 and maybe beyond the
> > > 80Mb as well; I have not kept up on the product through its most recent
> > > cycles since they seemed unwilling to change their policies.
> > >
> > > Civileme
>
> The bottom line is that the disk is probably safe and kdf needs overhaul.
> Certainly on that platform with no more than 33MHz udma you are on firm
> ground, but don't move the disk to a newer platform using 66-133MHz and
> 80-pin cables. It is OK to move it to a newer platform if you stick with a
> 40 pin cable.
>
> Somewhere a few generations ago like 8.1 there was a utility called drakopt
> which would run a thorough test of your HD speeds and optimize the setup...
> It still works, if you have hdparm loaded.
>
> But let's make double-sure and run one more test
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hdd
>
> should show a partition with an 80 G capacity
>
> I would recommend using smaller partitions in several categories. SWAP is
> always good to have on both disks of a pair and The possibility of IDE RAID
> with RAID0 for /usr to optimize for speed of program loading might not be a
> bad idea.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/civileme/raiddoc.html
>
> is a good link for an intro to linux software RAID
>
> The computer that made those png diagrams is still in use as my firewall.
>
> Civileme
fdisk -l /dev/hdd gives
Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 155061 78150712+ 83 Linux
When i try to use VMWare and create a 10 GB disk i get error.
Gil
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