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11-12-2003, 12:24 PM
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Location: Dallas, TX.
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Slackware 9.1 HDD Limitations?
Greetings All,
I am in the process of setting up a NFS storage device and had a question:
1. Does Slack have a limitation on the size of the hard drive? I.E. I have ordered 2 Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250GB HDDs. Along with a Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Host Bust Adapter Card. Will I have a problem configuring those drives on that controller? The only thing that I remember was the limitation based on the BIOS of >8.4GB. This is a newer Dell that can with a BIOS that will support larger HDDs.
Any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated.
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11-12-2003, 12:25 PM
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Location: Stuttgart (Germany)
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I doubt that you will have problems as long as the controler itself is supported.
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11-12-2003, 01:04 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Berlin
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Re: Slackware 9.1 HDD Limitations?
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Originally posted by subekk0
Greetings All,
I am in the process of setting up a NFS storage device and had a question:
1. Does Slack have a limitation on the size of the hard drive? I.E. I have ordered 2 Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250GB HDDs. Along with a Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Host Bust Adapter Card. Will I have a problem configuring those drives on that controller? The only thing that I remember was the limitation based on the BIOS of >8.4GB. This is a newer Dell that can with a BIOS that will support larger HDDs.
Any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated.
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The BIOS limitation wouldn't affect you anyway with the PCI IDE controller because that's the one that has to support the large drives.
Other than that I don't think that there are limitation in that range of hard disc drive space in Slackware - or better - in Linux 
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11-12-2003, 01:11 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Dallas, TX.
Distribution: Slacking since '94
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Ok.. I did a some research and it now appears that the Maxtore Ultra ATA/133 PCI Host Bus Adapater Card is actually manufactured by Promise (go figure...) so I switch the card to a Promise Ultra 133 TX2 Controller. It appears based on some past discussions that this card is now support is Kernel v2.4.22
Now for the last question:
Does anyone know of a HowTo for configuring RAID 1 on Slack. I found one for Slack 8.0 http://slacksite.com/slackware/raid.html is this one still usable? Thanks again.
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11-12-2003, 01:14 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
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erm, is that PCI IDE controller no RAID controller?
If not then why didn't you take a RAID controller instead? I suggest using a hardware RAID controller even though I heard that it works quite well in software, too.
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11-12-2003, 01:17 PM
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Software RAID. EIDE is the whole reason I have to go this way. We needed additional storage for our HP 9000 and one 36GB drive for this monster is about $1800. Or I could get 2 250GB EIDEs for $500 slap them in a Slackbox and export the RAID as an NFS mount and voilla! I can attach the HP 9000 to the NFS mount and have instant (half-way) reliable storage.
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11-12-2003, 03:29 PM
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I don't know if the software solution will work but as far as I know 8.0 already came with a 2.4.x Kernel so there probably aren't that many differences.
BTW: I was speaking about an EIDE RAID setup. Today's RAID add-on cards cost about the same price that normale IDE controllers cost. Hence my question.
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11-12-2003, 09:34 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Ithaca, NY
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You may have to update the firmware on your ATA controller - I know that mine needed an update to support drives larger than 137 GB.
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