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Old 11-12-2003, 12:24 PM   #1
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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.
 
Old 11-12-2003, 12:25 PM   #2
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I doubt that you will have problems as long as the controler itself is supported.
 
Old 11-12-2003, 01:04 PM   #3
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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.
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
 
Old 11-12-2003, 01:11 PM   #4
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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.
 
Old 11-12-2003, 01:14 PM   #5
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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.
 
Old 11-12-2003, 01:17 PM   #6
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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.
 
Old 11-12-2003, 03:29 PM   #7
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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.
 
Old 11-12-2003, 09:34 PM   #8
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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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