Hey all, There have been multiple posts I've read on this list saying that for some reason HDs over 250 GBs and drives that are 250, have problems with Linux. So is this true at all? I've been thinking that with my Birthday and Christmas coming soon (Birthday is in 5 days, Christmas is 25 days after that) I may get money or some gift cards for a store and may buy some extra HDs as even though I've had a computer for 5 years now I've never actually had a computer with more than one HD in it and I'm thinking of what size to get. -Allen.
On Friday 25 November 2005 14:32, Allen wrote:
Hey all,
There have been multiple posts I've read on this list saying that for some reason HDs over 250 GBs and drives that are 250, have problems with Linux.
So is this true at all? I've been thinking that with my Birthday and Christmas coming soon (Birthday is in 5 days, Christmas is 25 days after that) I may get money or some gift cards for a store and may buy some extra HDs as even though I've had a computer for 5 years now I've never actually had a computer with more than one HD in it and I'm thinking of what size to get.
-Allen.
I have two 250 GB HDs in one of my SUSE 10.0 machines, works perfectly! /Jan K. -- Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character... http://www.fmbv.nu
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 14:39 +0100, Jan Karjalainen wrote:
On Friday 25 November 2005 14:32, Allen wrote:
Hey all,
There have been multiple posts I've read on this list saying that for some reason HDs over 250 GBs and drives that are 250, have problems with Linux.
So is this true at all? I've been thinking that with my Birthday and Christmas coming soon (Birthday is in 5 days, Christmas is 25 days after that) I may get money or some gift cards for a store and may buy some extra HDs as even though I've had a computer for 5 years now I've never actually had a computer with more than one HD in it and I'm thinking of what size to get.
-Allen.
I have two 250 GB HDs in one of my SUSE 10.0 machines, works perfectly!
/Jan K.
-- Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character... http://www.fmbv.nu
I actually have a small system with 4 x 320 GB drives in a 3Ware-Cage connected to a 3Ware SATA Escalade 4-Channel controller as raid 5 running well so far with 893,2GB, targeted as part of an ERPII LAMPP system. I have also used the already aged SLES 7 with SAN/NAS systems like EMC² for SAP with TB's of diskspace with no problems. Ran just as well as Solaris and AIX. :-) Al
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Allen wrote:
Hey all,
There have been multiple posts I've read on this list saying that for some reason HDs over 250 GBs and drives that are 250, have problems with Linux.
So is this true at all? I've been thinking that with my Birthday and Christmas coming soon (Birthday is in 5 days, Christmas is 25 days after that) I may get money or some gift cards for a store and may buy some extra HDs as even though I've had a computer for 5 years now I've never actually had a computer with more than one HD in it and I'm thinking of what size to get.
-Allen.
I'm have a server running a SUSE 10.0 x86_64 installation with four 400GB SATA drives set up with RAID 0. This makes a raid device totaling 1.5 TB. I copy shit-tons of data every night to this array, and I haven't had any problems. :) - -- Jeff Hedley TC Networks, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDhywVN7/CuNq7GE4RAkX/AJ96swYhb46g3obcrXlwiNz9bZGkIACgqPYQ g1ZnC5+OX69kcWaXBVpljMw= =qUbi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Ok after reading these replies, where did these people come up with 250 GB drives not working then? You all say that it worked fine but I have mails here from the list saying they have trouble with them....was it a user error? -Allen
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Ok after reading these replies, where did these people come up with 250 GB drives not working then? You all say that it worked fine but I have mails here from the list saying they have trouble with them....was it a user error?
It is typical to have problem with large disks due to the bios. I have a 160 GiB unit from which grub can not boot. But once booted, Linux runs fine. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDh2LwtTMYHG2NR9URAjXpAJ9uw1rW0s35K4hta8KczawNaQQTLgCcCvzT yqI7k/+Fj/AS/JelhBzxO0k= =g8n/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 09:21 -0600, Jeff Hedley wrote:
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Allen wrote:
Hey all,
There have been multiple posts I've read on this list saying that for some reason HDs over 250 GBs and drives that are 250, have problems with Linux.
So is this true at all? I've been thinking that with my Birthday and Christmas coming soon (Birthday is in 5 days, Christmas is 25 days after that) I may get money or some gift cards for a store and may buy some extra HDs as even though I've had a computer for 5 years now I've never actually had a computer with more than one HD in it and I'm thinking of what size to get.
-Allen.
I'm have a server running a SUSE 10.0 x86_64 installation with four 400GB SATA drives set up with RAID 0. This makes a raid device totaling 1.5 TB. I copy shit-tons of data every night to this array, and I haven't had any problems. :)
- -- Jeff Hedley TC Networks, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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Hi, I am running Suse 10 on a 300GB Hard drive no problem at all Richard G. -- Registered Linux User: 256848 Failure isn't an option -- it comes bundled with microsoft windows
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 08:32 -0500, Allen wrote:
There have been multiple posts I've read on this list saying that for some reason HDs over 250 GBs and drives that are 250, have problems with Linux. Not that I'm aware of. I recently had to fix a fedora box with two 400GB SATA discs in. If it works in Fedora, I'll bet my bottom dollar you won't have issues in SUSE.
The only potential problem for you is the age of your machine. If you're buying and IDE drive, you motherboard's BIOS may not support such a big drive. However, if you buy a SATA addon card with a SATA disc, you won't have any problems. Linux doesn't really care about disc size. I've set up raid cards with a whole lot of discs in raid-5 (which presents itself as one disc to the operating system) of over a Terabyte, without any hassles. Hans
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