[99196] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Big Disk Installation Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugo Rabson)
Thu Nov 12 19:30:16 1998
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 00:29:44 -0000 (GMT)
From: Hugo Rabson <hugo.rabson@zetnet.co.uk>
To: Emmanuel Papirakis <epapirakis@hotmail.com>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Hi,
I found that by installing Windows 95 as the primary partition (about 400Mb)
and then creating a _huge_ extended partition into which I dropped /, /usr,
/var, etc. I was able to use all of my 6.xGb Maxtor.
System Commander chews up my long filenames & resets all LILO's good work, so
be careful..
On 02-Nov-98 Emmanuel Papirakis wrote:
> OK,
>
> listen, MAXTOR Dirves SUCK!!! Now that that's out of the way, let me
> tell you how I got MY 6.4G MAXTOR drive to work.
>
> The first one I installed worked for about a week. Then it started
to
> give me all sorts of irq errors untill one day when I rebooted, and it
> woudn't mount anymore (one down).
>
> So I go at the shop where I bought it, and, since they are
garanteed,
> the guy gives me a new one. This time, I say to my self, maybe it is
> because my partitions where to big (it is said in the large disk howto
> that the largest partition that linux can handle nowadays is 4*1024
> gigs, so that wasn't it). So I made 2G partions instead. This one lasted
> extra-long. About 2 weeks.
>
> So I think to my self, hmm, the disk was plugged on my 2nd IDE port.
It
> was the first time I had plugged anything there, so it could have been
> the power supply that gave to much juice. So, for my next drive, I would
> split the wires that feed my 1st drive (a quantum fireball that never
> failed me) so that both my drives get the same power. Also, to make sure
> the drive doesn't heat up too much, I bought a 3rd fan to cool down just
> that drive.
>
> This drive lasted almost a mounth. Then the guy from the shop gave
me a
> new drive. This one partitioned fine, but I couldn't get it to format
> (with mke2fs), It crashed. So the guy from the shop tells me that Linux
> was probably the problem. So he installes another disk on my computer
> (he formatted it under dos), and this one crashed too, while formatting.
>
> The moral of this story is that maxtor drives realy suck. Maybe it
> isn't a coincidence that all the drives that failed where 6.4G drives
> (just like your's). So just keep on trying (by the way, your drive is
> probably dead, it isn't supposed to take that long to format, and it
> shouldn't give you any errors).
>
> Papi
>
>
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