Hard drive upgrades

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:33:13PM -0700, David Aikema wrote:
> I've currently got Windows 98 SE (on a 10 gig drive) installed alongside SuSE 
> 7.3 Pro (on an 8.4 gig drive) using a motherboard about 2 1/2 years old.  If 
> I were to replace these two drives with a single 60 gig+ drive should I 
> expect to encounter any problems?

Nope, none that I'm aware of. With disk space being so cheap these days,
I wouldn't share one disk between Windows and Linux unless I had no
other choice. The very high capacity drives shouldn't be a problem with
recent 2.4.x kernels, but the 2.2 series couldn't deal with drives 
larger than 34Gb +/- because of a thinko in an ioctl in the IDE driver. 
I'm almost certain this has been solved in the 2.4 kernel. 
See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-12.html for more details
and some pointers to additional information.

Kurt
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