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  From: Tarek Heiland <tarek@bakas.com.au>
  To  : 'Jake Hawkes'" <jake@infinitylimited.net>, Richard Sharpe <jake@infinitylimited.net>
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:36:55 +0930

RE: More space required

I suspect my issue is the udma66 on a normally non existend ise device
/dev/hde that gives me issue. The mirror should effectively be transparent
to the OS if my promise card does its thing properly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Hawkes [mailto:jake@infinitylimited.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2000 11:46 AM
> To: Richard Sharpe
> Cc: Tarek Heiland; 'David Newall'; linuxsa
> Subject: Re: More space required
> 
> 
> Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > 
> > At 04:52 PM 6/28/00 +0930, Tarek Heiland wrote:
> > >Very true, and there are many cases were this is actually used.
> > >
> > >The latest LILO supposedly gets around this limitation for 
> the /boot
> > >partition. Only problem was when I tried to test it, lilo 
> would not write to
> > >the mirrored drive on the promise controller. Bugger!
> > 
> > I can confirm that it does. Mandrake 7.1 installs 
> Lilo-21.4.3, and it can
> > boot my Mandrake partition which is well beyond cylinder 1023.
> > 
> on a mirrored drive?
> --
> Jake Hawkes B.Eng, (CSE)
> 
> "I'm only smart enough to know how stupid I am", Joe Strummer.
> 

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