It's funny how my earlier post (see below) didn't make it to the list,
maybe it will show up in the end after mailman burps? But large hard
drives have been supported since 7.3.
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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From: Robert L. Cochran <cochranb@speakeasy.net>
To: Red Hat 8.0 Mailing List <psyche-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards
Date: 19 Nov 2002 18:55:49 -0500
I have a smaller Antec case (the Plus880) which I think is very good,
but it gets crowded in there if you have a lot of drives. I'm installing
a new Gigabyte motherboard in it and plan to have 3-4 drives connected.
I'll need rounded cables.
I haven't yet tried drives larger than 137 Gb but see the kernel notes
for 7.3:
[cochranb@bobc cochranb]$ egrep '137'
/usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/7.3/RELEASE-NOTES-i386
* LBA48/ATA133 support for drives > 137GB
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt. Maryland, USA
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 12:38, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> John wrote:
>
> > I think you are going to have problems.
> >
> > I presume you want to do lots of I/O.
>
> Not necessarily. This setup is intended to store data for legacy
> projects that are currently taking up valuable real estate on some Sun
> storage arrays, which handle the bulk of the workload. The data on the
> IDE disks would be read much more than written.
>
> Two ATA drives on one IDE port do
> > not work well, you cannot drive them both at once.
>
> Correct. I read (after I sent the first message) that the card has two
> IDE ports, which upon reflection I think I'd only want to connect two
> disks to. Doing so would still leave two unused IDE interfaces on the
> onboard RAID and two "regular" ones on the motherboard, so I could add
> two 120 GB disks to the IDE RAID ports, two 160 GB disks to the Promise
> card, my 20 GB root disk to IDE0, and all of the devices would still be
> masters on their port...I think. ;) Please let me know if I'm glossing
> over anything.
>
> > With all those ribbon cables around, ventilation is going to be
> > doubtful. Sure, you can cut and tie them, but people here who know about
> > electronics will counsel against that. Hello, Jo?
>
> The case I am looking at is an Antec Plus 1080 SOHO file server case
> with 430W power supply. I plan to have 2 more fans in addition to the
> two already included. Seems like there is plenty of room for cables and
> whatnot, although I haven't seen the case first hand. If anyone has
> seen one of these and can comment, please do.
>
> > I recommend you use SCSI or (Maybe) Serial ATA. SCSI is the proven
> > performer, SATA is the new kid on the block.
>
> I need cheap, proven stuff, which throws SATA out. If I had the cash, I
> wouldn't be looking into this setup right now, I'd do more planning and
> testing. Cheetah flips happen a lot more places than just Red Hat! ;)
>
> Tom
>
>
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