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  From: Mike O'Connor <mjoconr@pineview.net>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:46:17 +0930

Re: Installed 10GB EIDE Drive

HI Paul

I have just setup a system with basically that same configuration, I only
had one problem.

I could not get the system to boot, I found the problem was that Redhat
5.2's install program had not written the LILO data to the master boot
Record (MBR) and had not set the partition as boot active.

I have to reboot the system on a boot floppy and rewrite the LILO in to MBR
and set the partition as active.

I used the Redhat Recovery disk to do this.

The system access all hard drive space and now works perfectly

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schulz <pauls@caemrad.com.au>
To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Monday, 17 May 1999 15:33
Subject: Installed 10GB EIDE Drive


>Greetings all.. I've just installed a 10Gb EIDE Western Digital Hard
>Drive on my
>Cyrix 686, and there doesn't seen to be any problems at all.. regardless
>of
>all the warning I've seen about restrictions to 8 Gb limit..
>[Cost $320, inc tax.]
>
>Machine is RedHat 5.2 (Kernel 2.0.36)
>
>1. Installed EIDE drive as secondary master (no boot partition to worry
>about)
>2. BIOS (I don't have the details, machine is no nore than 2 years old)
>    Set disk type to 'auto' with 'auto' for the mode type
>   (options: NORMAL/LARGE/LBA/AUTO)
>3.  fdisk /dev/hdc
>     gives warning message about other types of operating systems,
>     eg DOS and OS/2 (!) on large drives.
>     Try setting a single partition.. /dev/hdc1... this seems to work!
>4.  mke2fs /dev/hdc1
>     This also works..
>5.  Insert entry into /etc/fstab, mount /erwin and ...
>     it looks like I now have a 10 GB partition
>     (less 5%, set aside by mke2fs by default)
>
>Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/hda1            1092495  859809   176240     83%   /
>/dev/hdc1            9657255      13  9156142      0%   /erwin
>
>Questions:
>Why does this seem too good to be true?
>Have I misread something?
>Am I still restricted to a 2Gb maximun file size under ext2fs?
>
>PaulS
>
>--
>Paul Schulz(pauls@caemrad.com.au)                             SysAdmin
>CAE-Mrad, Innovation House West, First Avenue, TECHNOLOGY PARK SA 5095
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