Re: Hard drives with 4 KB sectors and small file systems

2011-01-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Urs Thuermann put forth on 1/17/2011 4:53 PM: > Has anyone experience or can provide a link to information on > performance impact with the new hard drives with 4 KB sectors when > using file system with 1 KB block size? That 1KB block size will murder IO performance. > My question is not about t

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Miroslaw Kwasniak
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Thanks--that is quite helpful. I may stick to less than 137gb to avoid > using the adapter card. There are two missinterpreted (because they aren't related) definitions in ATA standards: - physical interface PIO, S/MDMA, UDMA - logical (software) acces

RE: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread David Turetsky
them at Sam's Club (WalMart) for $200 each -- David -Original Message- From: Richard Otte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ric Otte Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hard drives larger than 137gb Thanks--that is quite helpful. I may sti

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Ric Otte
Thanks--that is quite helpful. I may stick to less than 137gb to avoid using the adapter card. Ric On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:13:17PM -0600, Lupust wrote: > > The 2.4.x kernel supports them, but you also have to have either a > mainboard with ATA/133 or a ATA/133 adapter card. I am using a 160

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:32:18AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 08:08, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > The board is: > > > >UltraATA 133 PCI (P/N: SC-PE4B12) > > Ok, but what brand? Sorry, meant to include that. It's an SIIG card: http://siig.com/products/ide/featur

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 08:08, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:18:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:13, Lupust wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:13, Ric Otte wrote: > > > > > > > Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as > > >

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:18:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:13, Lupust wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:13, Ric Otte wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as > > > 160, 180, 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:13, Lupust wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:13, Ric Otte wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as 160, > > 180, 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so, is some sort > > of patch needed to be able to 'see' the wh

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-08 Thread Lupust
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:13, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as 160, > 180, 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so, is some sort > of patch needed to be able to 'see' the whole drive? And can I install > it just as I would a no

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Ric Otte said: > Hi, > > Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as 160, 180, > 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so, is some sort of > patch needed to be able to 'see' the whole drive? And can I install it > just as I would a normal hard drive?Thanks, if

Re: hard drives

2001-07-18 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:41, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:14:48PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > > > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is > > > > that it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > > > > >

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:14:48PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that > > > it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > > > and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:14, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is > > > that it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > > > and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an id

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > initially, i had the setup as > disk > disk > cd-rom > disk > > with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set. > and as previously noted, redhat 7.1 (2.4.2) saw the configuration, > debian (2.2.12) di

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
> > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that > > it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an ide > > driver version 1.10 whereas debian with 2.2.12 has an ide driver version > > of

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:08:39PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in > his amx wrote: > > > initially, i had the setup as > > > disk > > > disk >

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > initially, i had the setup as > > disk > > disk > > cd-rom > > disk > > > > with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set. > > and as previously noted

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread john
I seem to recall that way back (around 1994, 1995) I found that with a Tekram IDE card (set up as secondary IDE controller) I could only see the last drive if I had it primary on the controller, with the CD as slave. It might be the IDE controller causing you grief - although I'm surprised if that

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Monday 16 July 2001 12:52, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:32:21PM -0700): > > in addition, if i were not seeing hdc already, i would not be as > > mystified. on the other hand, given that hdc is there, i would have > > expe

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:32:21PM -0700): > in addition, if i were not seeing hdc already, i would not be as mystified. > on the other hand, given that hdc is there, i would have expected hdd to be > as well. am i missing something here??? hdc

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Monday 16 July 2001 09:06, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:51:12AM -0700): > > yes, both are "out of the box" kernels. redhat is 2.4.2 from redhat 7.1 > > i think this may well be your problem. especially newer harddrives >

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:51:12AM -0700): > yes, both are "out of the box" kernels. redhat is 2.4.2 from redhat 7.1 i think this may well be your problem. especially newer harddrives don't like to be slaves of older stuff (cdroms in particular).

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Monday 16 July 2001 08:50, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:21:10AM -0700): > > i am having a particularly baffling problem. > > what's the redhat kernel version? and are you using stock kernels? yes, both are "out of the bo

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:21:10AM -0700): > i am having a particularly baffling problem. what's the redhat kernel version? and are you using stock kernels? compare the two kernel configs, and do a recompile with the same options for IDE devices..