[vdr] Re: Maxtor 160 GB

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Ralf Spitzauer wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I get today a new Maxtor 160 GB Harddisk. I connect it to my ASUS CUBX-E
> onboard promise Controller and try to make partions with YAST1 under Suse
> 7.3 kernel 2.4.10.
> Yast gives different numbers of cylinders so I don´t know what to do. I set
> the End-Cylinder to 19929 and format the partition with reiserFS. KdiskFree
> shows me after mounting 153 GB Capacity.

153GB is correct.
Note that this is 153 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 164282499072,
which is about    164 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000, so actually, in
disk manufacturers unist, this is even a 164GB disk.

> But I´m not trust in this. Have everybody some experiences whith HDD´s over
> 128 GB?

I do. It works flawlessly here on an Elitegroup K7S5A
main board with a SiS 5513 IDE controller.

Here are some data that may be of interest:

/home/cko> df -hTl
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3      xfs    114G   60G   54G  53% /
/dev/hda1     ext2     15M  2.9M   11M  21% /boot
/dev/hdb1      xfs    153G   91G   61G  60% /video2
/dev/hdc1      xfs    153G   97G   56G  63% /video
shmfs          shm    251M     0  250M   0% /dev/shm
/home/cko> df -kTl
Filesystem    Type   1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3      xfs   119894524  62787452  57107072  53% /
/dev/hda1     ext2       15522      2946     11775  21% /boot
/dev/hdb1      xfs   160060120  95321632  64738488  60% /video2
/dev/hdc1      xfs   160060120 100837404  59222716  63% /video
shmfs          shm      256880         0    256880   0% /dev/shm
/home/cko> sfdisk -l /dev/hdc

Disk /dev/hdc: 19929 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1          0+  19928   19929- 160079661   83  Linux
/dev/hdc2          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
/dev/hdc3          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
/dev/hdc4          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
vdr:~ # hdparm -i /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:

 Model=Maxtor 4G160J8, FwRev=GAK819K0, SerialNo=G804AZGE
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
 CurCHS=4317/15/255, CurSects=-166919941, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6 
 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255)
 Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 ATA-6 
 Kernel Drive Geometry LogicalCHS=83705/255/63 PhysicalCHS=83705/255/63

Did you install the kernel patch from http://linuxdiskcert.org?


> Because this is out of topic you can mail me direct.

It's a bit off-topic, but I believe most VDR users are interested?


Carsten.