[vdr] Re: Disk suggestions?

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Son, 2002-07-21 um 14.05 schrieb Christian Berger:
> 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.,
> 

I'm running one 160 GB Maxtor in my Server with RedHat7.3. My BIOS
doesn't support drives larger 128 GB, but who cares? (except
Windoze-dummies). RedHat has patched the kernel coming along with 7.3
and kernels up from 2.4.19-pre4 (didn't test earlier ones) support
48-bit adresses.

If you have your own little '/boot' partition, it's no problem!

Rene