Re: 137GB hd cap, older motherboard, linux kernel/dist mess
From: erik (erik_at_geenspam.vanwesten.net)
Date: 11/14/04
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:00:29 +0100
Eric Peterson wrote:
> Setting up a backup system for the office (as you may have seen from a
> few of my previous questions).
>
> Well, the new hard drive came in and I ran into a hitch.
>
> The computer is an Dell Optiplex GX110 (Vintage 2000). The ide
> controler is
> ata/66. The hard drive we bought is ata/133 300GB. So I have now
> discovered the 137GB limit of the older controller. Well I ran out
> and got
> a Belkin ata/133 card. Now I've got the old 10GB disk on the
> motherboard
> and the 300GB on the card. System boots fine and gives bios options
> that
> indicate the card is actually RAID. Boots all the way into Debian
> command-line just fine (Woody, kernel 2.4).
>
> But I can't find the 300 GB disk to partition or format it.
>
> I've tried reinstalling Debian with no luck.
>
> I threw in a SUSE live cd and it recognized the 300GB just fine, even
> wanted
> to install itself to it. But I don't want all the GUI bells and
> whistles. Just want a simple but secure command line system that I can
> administer via ssh from the Win2k box at my desk.
>
> Are there any options for keeping a relatively stable version of
> Debian? Do
> I need to learn a different form of linux? And can I get the 300GB
> working with a simple, command-line flavor?
Update the kernel to the latest version, I would go for a 2.6 kernel.
Use www.backports.org to install, it is completely debian compliant.
When you have upgraded, you will see support for the belkin card is
probably there... if supported at all.
EJ
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