Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-24 Thread Joshua Rodman
* Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010521 23:14]: Hello: I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100 hard drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give 30 gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux. Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any necessary partitioning or parameters

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Todd Flinders
Should I hold out for Civilme to write the Maxtor Controller Card install? The Maxtor card does UDMA 100, right? I understand that the 3ware only goes up to UDMA 66. Will these burst rates make an important difference if I plan to use RAID 0? --- B.V.L.S.Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
I dont think it will be a problem... except take care that while partitioning , the /boot partitioning , the cylinder numbering should not exceed 1024.. ofcourse this partitioning logic is a bit old... thats all...everything else will fit ..well.. may be present boot loaders will take care of

Réf. : Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Patrick . Bussi
and not necessarily those of my Company. B.V.L.S.Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22/05/2001 10:06:53 Pour :Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ccc : Patrick Bussi/ALCATEL-SPACE) Objet : Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs? I dont think

RE: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread T . Bizot
No problems with 50GB on mandrake 8 -Original Message- From: B.V.L.S.Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: dinsdag 22 mei 2001 10:07 To: Todd Flinders Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs? I dont think it will be a problem... except

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread ergeorge
3ware RAID controller works great with Mandrake. It is detected configured automatically. The RedHat userland utilities are fine also. One thing you might consider though, is that if your single, 90 GB partition gets corrupted, you lose everything. If you split it into smaller (but still

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread ninjaz
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: I bought a nice 40 gig drive a while back (although it is NOT the boot disk), made one big partition, and its happy: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 2190632819352 126 39% /

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach B.V.L.S.Prasad am Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:06:53PM +0400: the cylinder numbering should not exceed 1024.. That's LONG gone. Both grub and lilo (in 8.0) can handle large partitions. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english)

Re: [expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Todd Flinders am Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:05:17PM -0700: Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any No problem. I myself have a 160 GB partition, running fine. No special setup at all (well, besides the fact that it is a software raid...) Alexander Skwar -- How to quote:

[expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
Hello: I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100 hard drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give 30 gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux. Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any necessary partitioning or parameters to allow Linux to see the 90 gigs? Do I need to do