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

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Lamar Owen wrote:

> 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.

That's closer to 16MB/s .

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        Peter

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