Couple of things (IDE drive size; still some Red Hat'isms)

Lamar Owen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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