Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning

2000-08-16 Thread Andries . Brouwer
I happened to come across this mail - don't know about any earlier discussion. >> Did you try passing the disk geometry to the kernel at boot time? >> e.g. using lilo: >> LILO: somekernelname sdb=14100,24,424 This doesnt work. When you specify C,H,S (which almost never is a good idea), S can be

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary Hennigan writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning."): > >There shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with a 70G > >partition. Linux limit for a partition size is somewhere in the TB > >range.

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Gary Hennigan writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning."): >There shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with a 70G >partition. Linux limit for a partition size is somewhere in the TB >range. I bet it'll make for some LONG fsck times though! > >You

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter S Galbraith writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning. "): > > > >Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > > >> I've gotten a > >> ST

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Peter S Galbraith writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning. "): > >Richard Kaszeta wrote: > >> I've gotten a >> ST173404LW drive (73.4 Gig Ultra2 160 drive), >> However, I can't