[vdr] Suse 7.3 und Maxtor 200 GB

[tobias.meyer-janson@sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de (Tobias Meyer-Janson)]

Hello!

Since a while I am trying to implement an additional 200 GB HD in my
LinuxVDR system, but I got some problems. Perhaps I did not find the
right information or did not understand it.
May I get some hints here? I've learned something about linux during
setting up this system, but I am not very familiar with linux, yet.
This mail is a bit long, because of the details I'm trying to write
down. I hope that one could get the necessary information easily.

My system:
- Mainboard K7S5A mit 256 MB RAM
- 80 GB IDE, controller 1 master, mit 3 partitions
    /       2,3 GB Suse 7.3 and software
    /swap   517 MB
    /video  73,5 GB
- DVD-ROM controller 2 master
- 200 GB IDE HD controller 2 slave (new):
  Maxtor 6Y200P0 DiamondMax Plus 9, U-133
     During bootup the BIOS detects the HD falsely as 137,4 GB w/ 4128
  cylinders, 255 heads und 255 sectors, 32Bit on, ATA 33 (i. e. 133 or
  simply nonsense?). But BIOS isn't important for me, right? I have no
  plans to boot from this HD.
     Yast 1.13.1 detects /dev/hdd w/ 255 heads, 63 sectors, 104129
  cylinders á 8225280 Bytes -> nearly 800 GB -> wrong, too.
     fdisk detects 255 heads, 63 sectors, 24792 cylinders á 16065 * 
  512 Bytes -> 190 GB.
     The HD is detected by linux during bootup, but the text disappears
  very quickly that I have no details. 

Use:
- I use this machine as LinuxVDR only.
- I assume that the performance would be somewhat better, if I connected
  the DVD to IDE-1, because that HD is to be used less often
  simultaneously to the DVD-ROM. But I think that this would require
  some reconfiguration of system and programs so I decided not to do so.
  If you've got other appreciations, please let me know.

Tested:
- create a partition by yast w/ shown 104129 cylinders -> error: part of
  the area already used. 
- ext3 partition cylinders 1-20000 created by yast-> during reboot error
  by fsck.
- partition created by fdisk, reiserfs by Yast. Seems to work - but: The
  script disk_test by Carsten Koch from January 2002 filled the
  partition during 1h, but stopped with an error after a few seconds
  verifying. The exact error msg got lost but I can repeat the test if
  necessary.

If I understand it right, I need a 48-bit-adressing kernel. How can I
detect if this is the problem (I do not know if the Suse 7.3 2.4.10
kernel supports this)? Also I want to use XFS for the new video
partition, so what kernel or patch do I need? Do I have to resetup my
system/vdr/etc.?
I found linux-2.4.20.tar.gz, but do not know (though I have the
Kernel-HowTo) how to configure it and if it works with my Suse system.
Alternativly I found xfs-2.4.10-all.bz2 (if I don't need a new kernel)
but also in this case I don't know what to follow to patch the system.

Can anybody please give me or direct me to some help.

thx.


TMJ


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