Re: Small Debian-based distro suitable for 586?
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:47:20AM +0100, Joseph Jones wrote:
> Does such an animal exist? I'm thinking of setting an older box up as a
> fileserver, but I need to know whether there're any kernel patches or
> modules that allow the use of large HDDs (60GB) on older machines
> *without* additonal hardware.
...
My motherboard = Chaintech 5IFM (09/1996) w/ AMD K5 133 MHz;
I installed an IBM Deskstar (60 GB) as hda;
I installed an IBM DAQA 33240 (6 GB) as hdb.
my hdc is an "ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache"
My Debian Woody didn't need any special configuration;
my BIOS HD was set to LBA.
As I am mostly interested in Linux, I installed my Windows 95 on the
1st partitions of both HD drives and on the last partition of hda,
the rest is Linux.
I fine tuned my disk drives in
/etc/defaults/hdparm.sh:
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# hdparm.sh Tune harddisc + cdrom \wwf 14.5.03
#
# This prog should be called first from /etc/rcS.d
# Common Params for both (technically similar) HDs
/sbin/hdparm -A1 -c1 -d1 -X34 -k1 -m16 -u1 -S192 /dev/hda /dev/hdb
# Params for CDROM
/sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -X34 -k1 -u1 /dev/hdc
# -A1 = set drive read-lookahead
# -c1 = set IDE 32-bit IO setting
# -d1 = set using_dma flag
# -X34 = select multiword DMA mode2
# -k1 = keep_settings_over_reset flag
# -m16 = set multiple sector count (hdparm -i -> MaxMultSect=16)
# -u1 = set unmaskirq flag
# -S192 = set spindown timeout = 192 * 5 sec == 16 min
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
This file is called up at earliest boot time through
/etc/rcS.d/S05hdparm.sh -> ../init.d/hdparm.sh
/etc/init.d/hdparm.sh:
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/sh
#
# hdparm.sh Tune harddisc + cdrom \wwf 14.5.03
#
# This prog should be called first from /etc/rcS.d
. /etc/default/hdparm.sh
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
(your mileage may vary)
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