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Hello, I am about to install a 200gb Maxtor hard drive onto the Master Node of a Beowulf cluster running Scyld Linux (Parallelized Linux based on Redhat 6 i think, kernel version 2.2.19-12.beosmp). Does this kernel support such a large hard drive? Any problems that you can forsee? (And better yet, any solutions to those problems?) THanks for your help.
I'm not sure about the 2.2 Kernel, but with the 2.4 kernel there should not be any problems. Worse comes to worse a kernel upgrade may be needed. Still I don't think that you will have a problem.
Am I right to assume that you will not be making one partition for the entire 200GB?
I'm not sure about partitioning yet; is there a limitation on the size? We need a lot of space (we use about 2gb per week). The Maxtor Ultra ATA133 pci card is the same as a promise model Ultra 133 TX2 card. I don't have the 2.4 kernel, and i'd rather not mess with the current kernel because it is in a special parallelized form - this is a beowulf cluster. Is it ok to patch the kernel if necessary? I do not have the kernel sources for Scyld, and I don't know where to get them from.
Ok...so how do I install this pci card in linux? Do I just stick it in there and boot up again? would the new hard drive then be located under /dev/hd** or something else? Thanks
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