Message-ID: <200012301246090813.0289F6D1@kang> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:46:09 +0000 From: "Sean Akers" <sean.akers@ntlworld.com> Subject: Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit I am running SuSE 6.4 on an old P166 with a BIOS limit of 8.4Gb for HDs. I can't upgrade the BIOS on this machine. I wish to add a new HD to this system and was wondering if Linux can cope with a large drive (I'm thinking 30Gb) ? I am booting off an 8.4 drive at the moment. The new drive will replace a supplementary 2Gb unit so I don't need to be able to boot off the new drive. I can't add a Promise controller due to lack of PCI slots. Speed is not really an issue either, its the space I'm after. Can this be done ? If so, is there any docs on the subject. Cheers, Sean.
From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 15:18:13 +0100 Message-Id: <00123015181300.01334@buffy> Subject: Re: [SLE] Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit On Saturday 30 December 2000 13:46, Sean Akers wrote:
I am running SuSE 6.4 on an old P166 with a BIOS limit of 8.4Gb for HDs. I can't upgrade the BIOS on this machine. I wish to add a new HD to this system and was wondering if Linux can cope with a large drive (I'm thinking 30Gb) ? I am booting off an 8.4 drive at the moment. The new drive will replace a supplementary 2Gb unit so I don't need to be able to boot off the new drive. I can't add a Promise controller due to lack of PCI slots. Speed is not really an issue either, its the space I'm after.
Can this be done ? If so, is there any docs on the subject.
I have a 15 Gig disk running quite happily on a P166 also with a bios that does not know about disks >8.4. Cliff
Message-ID: <200012311132550224.076D51F0@kang> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:32:55 +0000 From: "Sean Akers" <sean.akers@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit Thanks guys. I've read the HOWTO and it looks to me like I need to put the new HD in and not enter it into the BIOS. The kernel will then automatically pick it up and know the correct size. Is that right ? Sean.
From: Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@jlkreps.net> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 07:32:07 -0600 Message-Id: <00123107320701.03905@JLKreps> Subject: Re: [SLE] Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit When I first setup my 13GB HD in SuSE 6.3 I had to use fdisk. I got the partition overlap messages, which I ignored, and I used the LBA settings. It worked. When I setup in SuSE 7.0 I let it detect the disk. I just set up my partitions using YaST2 and ReiserFS and let SuSE do the rest. Worked great. JLK On Sunday 31 December 2000 05:32, Sean Akers wrote:
Thanks guys. I've read the HOWTO and it looks to me like I need to put the new HD in and not enter it into the BIOS. The kernel will then automatically pick it up and know the correct size. Is that right ?
Sean.
-- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
Message-ID: <3A4FCA77.E992B1E@iname.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:08:23 +0000 From: Chris Reeves <chris.reeves@iname.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit Sean Akers wrote:
Thanks guys. I've read the HOWTO and it looks to me like I need to put the new HD in and not enter it into the BIOS. The kernel will then automatically pick it up and know the correct size. Is that right ?
I'm afraid I don't have the start of this thread, since my ISP's mail server has been playing up (hence the reason for me unknowingly replying to messages that have already been replied to). I'm not sure if this will work or not for an 'extra' disk, but if you're intending to boot off this disk then it certainly *will not* work! If you *do* want to boot off this disk, then you must tell the bios about it and then pass any necessary geometry parameters to LILO so that it can find the rest of the disk. Sorry that's a bit unclear, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
I do not need to boot from the new large HD. I am happy using my 8.4Gb drive for that. It will purely be for additional storage of data (large Smalltalk code databases, Postgress databases, user data, and possibly Lotus Domino databases sometime soon), no OS stuff at all. Thanks for all your help. This is by far the best place to get Linux help. Cheers, Sean. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 01/01/2001 at 00:08 Chris Reeves wrote:
I'm afraid I don't have the start of this thread, since my ISP's mail server has been playing up (hence the reason for me unknowingly replying to messages that have already been replied to). I'm not sure if this will work or not for an 'extra' disk, but if you're intending to boot off this disk then it certainly *will not* work! If you *do* want to boot off this disk, then you must tell the bios about it and then pass any necessary geometry parameters to LILO so that it can find the rest of the disk.
Sorry that's a bit unclear, Chris
From: Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@jlkreps.net> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:32:04 -0600 Message-Id: <00123008320400.01183@JLKreps> Subject: Re: [SLE] Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html On Saturday 30 December 2000 06:46, Sean Akers wrote:
I am running SuSE 6.4 on an old P166 with a BIOS limit of 8.4Gb for HDs. I can't upgrade the BIOS on this machine. I wish to add a new HD to this system and was wondering if Linux can cope with a large drive (I'm thinking 30Gb) ? I am booting off an 8.4 drive at the moment. The new drive will replace a supplementary 2Gb unit so I don't need to be able to boot off the new drive. I can't add a Promise controller due to lack of PCI slots. Speed is not really an issue either, its the space I'm after.
Can this be done ? If so, is there any docs on the subject.
Cheers,
Sean.
-- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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