[RndTbl] drive partitioning for Linux install

[Dan Martin]

Trevor Cordes wrote:

>On  4 Oct, Dan Martin wrote:
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>>It turns out that my BIOS and ATA interface cannot handle HDs bigger 
>>than 137 GB, so I am switching my new larger drives to another computer 
>>and using its drives in the P3 - ie, lots of copying drives and partitions.
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>The easiest way to get big drives working on even ancient computers is
>get a PCI IDE card.  Many options are available in the $40-$60 range and
>they almost all work with linux OOB.  
>
I may end up doing that if I'm not sure my present IDE is working.  It 
will also cost me $40 - $70 to reflash my BIOS - unless the new card 
will be able to bypass it (don't know how it would do that while booting 
other OS's).

>As for SATA, I've had nothing but
>grief with cheap SATA cards and would recommend staying away from them,
>esp if you're using FC which seems to be the worst for SATA.
>
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The RAID that FC couldn't read and insisted on reformatting used SATA 
drives.  The damage is already done.

-- 
  -Dan

Dr. Dan Martin, MD, CCFP, BSc, BCSc (Hon)

GP Hospital Practitioner
Computer Science grad student
ummar143 at cc.umanitoba.ca
(204) 831-1746
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