From: morley@suncad.camosun.bc.ca (Mark Morley) Subject: Big disks, can Linux handles these? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 17:11:18 GMT
Oh boy oh boy oh boy....
Ahem. Ok, so I got this *great* deal on a couple of Quantum 1.2GIG SCSI
hard disks - 11ms, 512K cache on each disk, etc. Nice. Fast. Goosebumps.
They'll be here in a week or so (which will feel like a year, I'm sure).
I'm planning on making one into a DOS (blech!) drive, the other into
Linux. In the near future I'll be turning them both into Linux drives.
Of course, I can only do this if Linux 'll handle the size. I (think I) know
the minix fs won't do it... (Come to think of it, I don't know if DOS can
handle a 1.2G partition either. Hmmm....)
The SCSI aspect is no problem. I have a SCSI controller that lets me
configure my first two SCSI drives as if they were IDE drives (ie: via the
CMOS setup). This fools the hardware (and software) into thinking I have
IDE drives. Very nice. Additional SCSI devices require the normal SCSI
drivers, however.
So - can the extfs handle them? Will I have to partition them? What's
the max partition size for the various fs types? What's the maximum
number of partitions Linux can deal with? Why do I have to wait a whole
week for my disks?
Anyway, thanks for any and all info you can provide!
Mark
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