[conspire] Re: conspire Digest, Vol 18, Issue 5

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

You first need to make sure the BIOS on those Dells supports LBA48, or the
machines won't see any disk as larger than 128GiB. If the disks will be
Linux-only, you can get away with tricking Linux into using LBA48 in spite
of the BIOS by supplying your own drive geometry information...

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:16:59 -0800, Ross Bernheim wrote:

> 
> On Thursday, November 4, 2004, at 03:42 PM, 
> conspire-request at linuxmafia.com wrote:
> 
>> no mo crawlin roun unda de house puttin insulashun on
>> pipes an solderin joints, YAHOO!!!!!!!!
> 
> I guess that you do YAHOO!!!!!!!!
> 
> More on topic to Conspire, the Dell Optplex that we set up as a samba 
> server the
> other week at the CABAL meeting is working well at work. I still need 
> to work on
> a few permission issues but otherwise it works well. As a result, the 
> boss ok'ed my
> getting a couple of  160GB drives to set up the second box and later 
> retrofit the
> first box.
> 
> I am putting the two Samsung 160GB IDE drives into the second Dell 
> Optiplex
> Pentium II 266 box and am going to put Debian into it with software 
> RAID1 to mirror
> the drives. I will need to get a Y cable for powering the second drive 
> and I have
> changed out the IDE cable for the second IDE channel which only had a 
> single
> drive connector for a longer one with two drive connectors. I changed 
> the CD ROM
> from cable select to slave so both hard disks will be masters on their 
> respective
> channels. I will have to fashion a bracket to hold the second disk 
> drive as the
> computer did not come with the bracket for the second hard disk, though 
> they
> made them.
> 
> Ross