[vdr] Re: 160GB disks - ATA/133

[Hermann Gausterer <mrq1@mrq1.dyndns.org>]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:28:09PM +0100, Sven Karlsson wrote:
> As pointed you in other postings, you will need a kernel that implementents
> the 28-bit addressing mode. There are a number of kernel patches for this
> and the most recent kernels have the support "built-in".
> 
> I have a 160GB drive in my VDR machine and I'm a happy camper. The
> motherboard is a very old super socket 7 board with a VIA chipset. It works
> just fine.

does this mean: old controllers can work with udma 100 oder udma 66
and there is no need for hardwareupdate for using this disks?
 
> Can anyone comment on the perferred (journalling) filesystem for
> a VDR machine?

i am using xfs with the cvs kernel from sgi, works realy great
never a problem with the journal
also 100% full disks are no problem
xfs is designed for streaming large (>100gb) files .. so our
2 gb babies are no problem ;-)

/dev/video-volume/video      225G  210G   15G  94% /mnt/video

mfg hermann


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