Couple of things (IDE drive size; still some Red Hat'isms)
Lamar Owen <[email protected]>
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Spot, the KDE splash screen isn't Aurorafied -- it says Red Hat, just like the updated Red Hat 7.3 KDE3. Another little report with 1.0. While this might have worked fine with previous kernels and tools, I just this weekend had the opportunity to test this. I'm upgrading my employer's audio servers, replacing a pair of 30GB drives with a pair of 120GB drives. So, before I installed one in the intel hardware, I checked it out on my U10. The drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB ATA133 drive. LBA is 240121728, which works out to a CHS of 238216/16/63, but that won't work since cylinders is limited to 65535. A CHS of 59554/64/63 does, however, work fine, once I figured it out. The Sun disklabel was properly written, mke2fs -c (after two hours plus a few minutes of checking badblocks -- which is decent throughput: 117247 MB in 128 minutes ~ 32MB per second) properly wrote a filesystem, and files were stored. So the answer to the question of a few weeks back: will an 80GB drive work in a U5/U10? Probably. Now to save up $200 and get one for my U10... 32MBps is the best throughput I've seen on that hardware. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11