[linux-dvb] Re: Lowest possible hardware configuration for VDR?

[Jan Panteltje <root@panteltje.demon.nl>]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Guido Fiala wrote:

> On Sunday, 10. June 2001 15:07, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Juergen Scherer wrote:
> > > The only (minor) problem was to introduce the 40GB harddisk to the
> > > ASUS 55TP4N Board. (I first had to enable the 32GB clip to overcome
> > > the BIOS limits, but than started to use an IBM-diskmanager and some
> 
> If you do not need to boot from this drive (because you have another one with 
> the system) you do not need to inform the Bios about it - simply disable it, 
> Linux will just work fine (with drives <120GB for now ;-)
> 
> > > kernel parameters to use the full 40GB - more details on demand...)
> 
> I did'nt even need this.
> 
> > >
> > > Is someone bidding less ;) ?
> >
> > I had a similar problem with 40 GB on the MSi mobo.
> > The bios reports 40 GB alright, but linux, after fighting with
> > fdisk, does this:
> > /dev/hdd1             32511352  23901236   6958636  77% /video
> > So it reports 32 GB!
> 
> Think somewhere in the "large-disk-howto" was a remark to use cfdisk
> for drives >32GB - it worked for me flawless.
Yes you are right, I should have looked up the howto.
Now its says:
   FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table
                        Press any key to exit cfdisk
hehe.
beter leave it like this.
This is for the next 40 GB disk.
Dis you know that new technology at IBM will soon have 400GB harddisks 
for PC?
They are already using that in the new laptops (smaller however), was an
article about it in C'T 12 
Regards
Jan

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