Hard drive upgrades

[Richard R. Sivernell]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:44:29 -0400
kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:

> 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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   I would say Kurt hit the nail on the head here. use the 10 gig drive for M$
and the biggy for Linux, I have Linux running on 5 g SCSI, 40 & 60 g HD.

   On M$ the C: drive max size is 2g MAX, all other drives are upto what your
desire is.

cheers
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Rick Sivernell
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Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1
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