[SLE] Seagate 30.6 gig HD cylinders?
I've just ordered a new Seagate 30.6 Gig EIDE (UDMA 66, 7200 RPM) hard drive, and I would like to know in advance how many megabytes (or gigabytes) it has within the 1st 1024 cylinders, so I can start planning how to partition it for Linux, DOS, OS/2, and Win98. Any thoughts on partitioning are also welcomed. Lawrence Sayre --------------------------------------------- "Man's mind is his basic tool of survival!" (a quote from the famous 'John Galt' speech in the equally famous book "Atlas Shrugged") --------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Lawrence Sayre wrote:
I've just ordered a new Seagate 30.6 Gig EIDE (UDMA 66, 7200 RPM) hard drive, and I would like to know in advance how many megabytes (or gigabytes) it has within the 1st 1024 cylinders, so I can start planning how to partition it for Linux, DOS, OS/2, and Win98.
Any thoughts on partitioning are also welcomed.
Just make a small =~ 10 meg /dev/hda1 and mount /boot there, it should work fine. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
I believe that the first 1024 cylinders is 8GB. How you partition all those OSes is beyond me. :) Christopher Reimer On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Lawrence Sayre wrote:
I've just ordered a new Seagate 30.6 Gig EIDE (UDMA 66, 7200 RPM) hard drive, and I would like to know in advance how many megabytes (or gigabytes) it has within the 1st 1024 cylinders, so I can start planning how to partition it for Linux, DOS, OS/2, and Win98.
Any thoughts on partitioning are also welcomed.
Lawrence Sayre
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I've heard that 8GB was only for SCSI HD's, unless I heard wrong. Some other info: Stand alone system Want ~10.5GB for Win98 with c:, d:, and e: partitions Want ~1GB for DOS in c: and D: partitions (separate from others) Want ~4GB for OS/2 in c: and d: partitons (separate from others) Want ~15GB for SuSE 6.3 partitioned based on feedback from the list Lawrence Sayre "Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
I believe that the first 1024 cylinders is 8GB. How you partition all those OSes is beyond me. :)
Christopher Reimer
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Lawrence Sayre wrote:
I've just ordered a new Seagate 30.6 Gig EIDE (UDMA 66, 7200 RPM) hard drive, and I would like to know in advance how many megabytes (or gigabytes) it has within the 1st 1024 cylinders, so I can start planning how to partition it for Linux, DOS, OS/2, and Win98.
Any thoughts on partitioning are also welcomed.
Lawrence Sayre
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It's a general limitation. On most modern systems, this is only a limitation if you plan to run LILO as the boot manager. LILO must be located below the 1024 cylinders. Generally, that's why most people have a 10MB partition that is mounted as /boot under Linux. If you are using a different boot manager, you should check to find out how the hard drive should be partition. Christopher Reimer On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Lawrence Sayre wrote:
I've heard that 8GB was only for SCSI HD's, unless I heard wrong.
Some other info:
Stand alone system Want ~10.5GB for Win98 with c:, d:, and e: partitions Want ~1GB for DOS in c: and D: partitions (separate from others) Want ~4GB for OS/2 in c: and d: partitons (separate from others) Want ~15GB for SuSE 6.3 partitioned based on feedback from the list
Lawrence Sayre
"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
I believe that the first 1024 cylinders is 8GB. How you partition all those OSes is beyond me. :)
Christopher Reimer
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Lawrence Sayre wrote:
I've just ordered a new Seagate 30.6 Gig EIDE (UDMA 66, 7200 RPM) hard drive, and I would like to know in advance how many megabytes (or gigabytes) it has within the 1st 1024 cylinders, so I can start planning how to partition it for Linux, DOS, OS/2, and Win98.
Any thoughts on partitioning are also welcomed.
Lawrence Sayre
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Hi Lawrence, The 30.6Gb Seagate hdisk works with SuSE 6.4 - no formating problems etc. The only problem was that the drive crashed after only 3 weeks. The issues with this drive are vibration & temperature - be sure to use a dedicated hdrive cooling fan ... be warned! I replaced it with a 30 Gb IBM - a wonderful drive... -- Best regards, Des Aubery... (adTherm Technologies, East London, E.Cape, South Africa) Lawrence Sayre wrote:
I've just ordered a new Seagate 30.6 Gig EIDE (UDMA 66, 7200 RPM) hard drive, and I would like to know in advance how many megabytes (or gigabytes) it has within the 1st 1024 cylinders, so I can start planning how to partition it for Linux, DOS, OS/2, and Win98.
Any thoughts on partitioning are also welcomed.
Lawrence Sayre
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