[vdr] Re: Disk suggestions?

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2002 12:47 schrieben Sie:
> > If you've problems with enough controllers put 160GB Maxtors in your
> > VDR-Box.
>
> You may run into additional trouble using IDE-Drives >128MB in your
> system. As far as I know, especially older BIOS/Mainboard combinations
> do not support those disks, and an updated BIOS may not avaiable. (at
> least for my Asus CUA bought only 1,5 years ago, there is no such BIOS
> available).
>
> Furhter, it seems to be neccessary to patch the kernel to supprt those
> large disks (I remember reading about this in previous postings)
>
> So,  maybe the 120GB Maxtor is the (easier) way to go.
>
>
> just my 0,02 EUR
> Christian

Well I guess recent Kernels will support it. But be sure to have a small 
"Bootdisk" to load the kernel since Lilo might not support such large 
disks. I've flawlessly worked with a 40Gb harddisk on a Pentium 90 which 
only supported 8Gb by BIOS. I didn't tell the BIOS about the large 
harddisk, but only about the small one.
So the system booted fomr the 6Gb disk, but stored most of the data on the 
40Gb one, that should also workd for larger harddisks.,

Servus
  Casandro


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