>>I'm preparing to install an IDE 45gb hard drive on a RH6.1 system. It's
^^^^^^^^^^
>>not a primary drive, and will mainly be used for extra storage of
>>documents. I have a few elementary questions:
>>
>>1) Other than making sure IDE support is compiled into the kernel, what
>>steps do I need to take to prepare for installing this device?
>That should be it. As long as its IDE based, that'll work. ATA66 drives
>need more to work if you use them on ATA66 connections though. Not sure if
>this applies, since you didn't offer many specs on the drive or motherboard.
Will a 45 Gb drive work ? I tried a 40+ Gb drive on a system with a
fairly recent ASUS P3 motherboard but I couldn't build a filesystem or
do a bad block r/w scan.
I later read that there aren't enough pins on the IDE bus to address beyond
32 Gb . I don't know if there are drivers for linux yet which work around
this limitation.
30 Gb drives work with standard RedHat drivers and kernels.
peter
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Peter Skensved
Dept. of Physics,
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
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