[vdr] Re: Maxtor 160 GB

[Andreas Roedl <flood@flood-net.de>]

Hello!

Am Freitag, 1. März 2002 19:20 schrieb Ralf Spitzauer:
> 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.
> But I´m not trust in this. Have everybody some experiences whith HDD´s over
> 128 GB?

You sould try to update your BIOS and switch to the latest kernel 2.4.18. 
Andre Hedricks "128G+-Patch" has been added to 2.4.18pre3-ac2. Check this out.

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

It is not really off topic...


Andi

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