RE: hard drives larger than 137gb
I have a PAIR of 160GB Western Digital hdd attached to my motherboard
via a Promise controller, AND a 32GB IBM Deskstar from which I run linux
(Woody)
Under Windows XP I see all 160GB of each of the two drives. Under linux,
I see the first partition of the 160GB drives (ntfs format) and all of
the 30GB drive
Woody (3.0r1) apparently does not support 48-bit drive addressing so the
other partitions cannot be viewed, but within that constraint the setup
reasonably coexists
The Promise controller came with each drive, along with software to
support full addressing under Windows. I bought them at Sam's Club
(WalMart) for $200 each
--
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Otte [mailto:ric@perelandra] On Behalf Of Ric Otte
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:07 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: hard drives larger than 137gb
Thanks--that is quite helpful. I may stick to less than 137gb to avoid
using the adapter card.
Ric
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:13:17PM -0600, Lupust wrote:
>
> The 2.4.x kernel supports them, but you also have to have either a
> mainboard with ATA/133 or a ATA/133 adapter card. I am using a 160 on
> one of my Linux boxes here with the ATA/133 adapter card, no problems.
>
> Lupust
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