Large Hard Drive, Scyld Linux

totalcommand · 07-25-2003, 10:14 AM

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.

totalcommand · 07-25-2003, 10:20 AM

ok, looks like I have to install the PCI ATA card that came with the drive because it is > than 137gb. How would I do this? Thanks for your help

slightcrazed · 07-25-2003, 10:25 AM

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?

slight

totalcommand · 07-25-2003, 10:41 AM

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.

totalcommand · 07-25-2003, 11:00 AM

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

ksgill · 07-25-2003, 11:01 AM

just out of curosity what do u guys do with 2 gigs/week?