RE: Max Drive size?

["Burke, Jason" <JBurke@lrs.com>]

Doh!..I stand corrected =).

Anyway, while there's someone listening with more knowledge
than myself. What is the correct lettering scheme for IDE drives?

Is it (assuming I have 4 disks):

ide1/master = hda
ide1/slave = hdb
ide2/master = hdc
ide2/slave = hdd

or:

ide1/master = hda
ide1/slave = hdc
ide2/master = hdb
ide2/slave = hdd

???



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tim Grossner [SMTP:tg@wintermute.cityscape.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 05, 1999 1:41 PM
> To:	'luci-discuss@luci.org'
> Subject:	RE: Max Drive size?
> 
> 
> Maybe im nitpicking or maybe you have it wrong, but it should be
> "fdisk
> /dev/hdc" not "fdisk /dev/hdc1"
> 
> hdc is the drive while hdc1 is the drives first partition. You cant
> fdisk
> a partition. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Grossner, Systems Engineer
> CityScape Communications
> 'The Total Technology Solution Provider'
> phone 217.535.1010
> 
> 
> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Burke, Jason wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Charles,
> > 
> > try using /dev/hdb1, and see if that helps. The only size limitation
> > that I know of
> > is that the kernel image needs to sit below 1023 cylinders if your
> going
> > to use
> > lilo instead of a boot disk.
> > 
> > Jason Burke
> > Network Engineer
> > Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.
> > www.lrs.com
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	charles@lunargraphics.net
> [SMTP:charles@lunargraphics.net]
> > > Sent:	Tuesday, January 05, 1999 1:30 PM
> > > To:	Linux Users Club of IL
> > > Subject:	Max Drive size?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am running RH5.1, and trying to install a new EIDE Hard Drive
> which
> > > is
> > > 8gig. Attempting to run 
> > > 
> > > fdisk /dev/hdc1
> > > 
> > > gives me 
> > > 
> > > Unable to read /dev/hdc1
> > > 
> > > The drive *is* the master on the 2nd IDE controller.
> > > Is there a limit to the hard drive size linux can handle?
> > > 
> > > cjm
> > > 
> > > 
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