[vdr] Re: Disk suggestions?

["Christian Vogt" <c.v@nexgo.de>]

From: "Steffen Koch" <Steffen.Koch@koch-enterprises.de>
> >Option b.) would be nice, but I don't really believe that this will work.
> It works... Tell the BIOS to set the disk to DOS/normal
>

From: "Rene Bartsch" <rene@bartschnet.de>
> b) works. My BIOS (ASUS CUBX Rev. 1008-004) recognizes the 160 GB Maxtor
> as 8 GB HDD. I just have the standard 64 MB '/boot'-partition, a 10 GB
> root-partition, a 10 GB '/tftpboot'-partition to get rid of my clients
> harddisk and a 129 GB-partition for storage (VDR, ...).
>
> But I didn't test that with Windoze ... :o)
>


Great!!
Then I'm going to by one of these cheap and silent 160GB Maxtors.
There's no need for Windoze to deal with it, because my VDR box is linux
only. I just don't know about this possibility until now.

Thanks,
Christian