Re: [Fwd: Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards]

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Robert L. Cochran wrote: It's funny how my earlier post (see below) didn't make it to the list, maybe it will show up in the end after mailman burps? But large hard drives have been supported since 7.3. Yeah, one of my messages about modem panel lights was super late as well. I think our mailm

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-21 Thread Robert L. Cochran
I have a smaller Antec case (the Plus880) which I think is very good, but it gets crowded in there if you have a lot of drives. I'm installing a new Gigabyte motherboard in it and plan to have 3-4 drives connected. I'll need rounded cables. I haven't yet tried drives larger than 137 Gb but see the

[Fwd: Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards]

2002-11-20 Thread Robert L. Cochran
ROTECTED]> To: Red Hat 8.0 Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards Date: 19 Nov 2002 18:55:49 -0500 I have a smaller Antec case (the Plus880) which I think is very good, but it gets crowded in there if you have a lot of drives. I&#x

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Georgoulias
My original plans were to build an IDE raid using a 3ware controller card, but they had to be cut back because of budget concerns. Thanks for all the input. I think I've got a system config that will fit our needs until more money is approved for larger, better solutions. Tom -- Psyche-lis

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "FRW" == Frank R Warnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FRW> I currently have several servers using 3ware's Escalade 7500 4 FRW> channel PCI controller driving three WD1800 (180GB) ATA hard FRW> drives each. I have them setup for RAID 5 and that gives me FRW> 360GB per server. I like them. I

RE: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread Frank R. Warnke
Tom Georgoulias asked; > Does anyone have any success stories with using larger IDE disks, > specifically 160GB or more, with a PCI IDE controller card? I currently have several servers using 3ware's Escalade 7500 4 channel PCI controller driving three WD1800 (180GB) ATA hard drives each. I h

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
John wrote: I think you are going to have problems. I presume you want to do lots of I/O. Not necessarily. This setup is intended to store data for legacy projects that are currently taking up valuable real estate on some Sun storage arrays, which handle the bulk of the workload. The data

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Jesse Keating wrote: # Does anyone have any success stories with using larger IDE disks, # specifically 160GB or more, with a PCI IDE controller card? # Are those patches, or functional equivalents, already rolled into the # stock Red Hat kernel? You would need support for LBA-48. I'm not s

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread John
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > Does anyone have any success stories with using larger IDE disks, > specifically 160GB or more, with a PCI IDE controller card? > > I was interested in using a Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE card and attaching > four Maxtor 160GB disks, but a search for t

Re: large IDE disks (>137GB) and IDE controller cards

2002-11-19 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:43:45 -0600 Tom Georgoulias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Does anyone have any success stories with using larger IDE disks, # specifically 160GB or more, with a PCI IDE controller card? # # I was interested in using a Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE card and # attaching four Maxto