On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tanner, Robby wrote:

> That's what I was told.  I'll double check.  My guess is that it would be a
> SCSI drive.  Are there different limits for EIDE?

no, their are no "limits".......the thing is, to my knowledge, 100GB eide
or scsi drives are not made.

Brian


> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Brian [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent:       Tuesday, April 04, 2000 8:51 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject:    RE: Maximum hd size
> > 
> > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tanner, Robby wrote:
> > 
> > > My uncle works for a potash mining company.  One of their linux file
> > servers
> > > has a 100GB HD with 1GB of RAM.
> > > That was at least a year ago.  Probably, you can get more RAM and larger
> > > drives by now, but that's the largest setup I know of.
> > 
> > Hmm.......are you sure its a 100GB HD?  I only know of SCSI drives going
> > in the ~50GB range.........we have several of them, Seagates.  I didn't
> > know you could get a 100GB HD.
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From:   Adrian Walters [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent:   Monday, April 03, 2000 4:39 PM
> > > > To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject:        RE: Maximum hd size
> > > > 
> > > > unless i get a new caes, i can only a take one more drive....
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > =>Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:19:43 -0600
> > > > =>From: Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > =>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > =>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > =>Subject: RE: Maximum hd size
> > > > =>Resent-Date: 3 Apr 2000 21:24:59 -0000
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> > > > =>Hi!
> > > > =>
> > > > =>I have no idea about the max size, but, wouldn't it be better to
> > have
> > > > two
> > > > =>drives half size each? That would improve search speed...
> > > > =>
> > > > =>-Manuel.
> > > > =>
> > > > =>> -----Mensaje original-----
> > > > =>> De: Adrian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > =>> Enviado el: Lunes, 03 de Abril de 2000 01:26 p.m.
> > > > =>> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > =>> Asunto: Maximum hd size
> > > > =>>
> > > > =>>
> > > > =>> is there any limit on the size of harddrive that linux will
> > > > =>> recognize. I
> > > > =>> want to get a 40+ gig harddrive, it will be used as a fixed
> > storage.
> > > > =>> maxtor makes a 60g that i migh be insterested in getting if
> > > > =>> it will work
> > > > =>> in linux.
> > > > =>>
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