On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Doug McLaren wrote: >On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:11:03AM -0700, Robert Wagner wrote: > >| The limitation is function of the file system. Ext2, >| and better, has a limitation measured in terabytes. > >ATA/33 -> ATA/100 can handle up to 137GB or so. Above that you need >ATA/133. But 120GB drives work just fine in Linux, with ATA/33, 66 or >100 (I've used all three combinations.) > >One thing that does not seem to work fine -- I made a 120GB fat32 >partition so that both Windows and Linux could use it. Windows >couldn't create it, but mkdosfs did just fine. For the most part, it >works, but I occasionally get errors, and Windows 98 cannot >scandisk/chkdsk it (says there's not enough memory.) W2K can, >however.
I created a 180GB FAT32 partition under Windows and it worked fine. The deal is that MS apparently decided they don't _want_ you to do this, so in every version of Windows after Win98, you have to use NTFS if you want partitions bigger than ~30GB. They will only let you use 4K cluster sizes in FAT32, I think. Windows 98 doesn't have this limitation. So you can just use a Win98 bootdisk if you want to use MS-blessed 'format' to create your big ole FAT32 partition. -- Eric Irrgang - UT ITS Unix Consulting - (512)475-9342 _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
