Looking to make a network backup server. Is there a limit on the size of IDE drive that RedHat will recognize?

I have searched and find a lot of talk of minimum requirements. Anyone got a good link for maximum restrictions?

Thanks

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Additional information I neglected to add the first time around.

IBM xSeries 200 with IDE only drives.
RedHat 7.3 (8?)
Want to put in 3 drives. Will the hat support 200 Gig drives?

Thanks (again and more)

I think that you should be alright with any of the hard drives on the market. That is if you are usin the 2.4.x kernel.

There is a limit, offhand I think its in the petabytes so that shouldn't be a worry. All of the work with LVM and clustering pushed the kernel limitation for drive size recognition way off into the horizon for the next few years at least. Filesystems are the bigger headache, ext2 maxes out at 2Gb per single file, without large file support, and then a lot of utilities need to be recompiled, like bin-utils: cp, mv, etc... it can be a headache. I've been fiddling with XFS as of late and the word impressed may be my understatement for the week.

Cheers,

Finegan

I got a server running XFS file system too. I have had no problems with it. Of course it is ny file/DNS/whatever else server at home and doesn't get a real workout.

IT'S ALIVE!!

Got the server running with 4 x 120 gig Western digital drives connected to a "Promise" IDE controller card.

Works sweet! Thanks for the ideas!