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Author Topic: Using Large Hard Drives  (Read 2704 times)

tickmike

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Using Large Hard Drives
« on: June 06, 2012, 04:11:13 PM »
I keep doing a bit of work on this backup server to automatically back up my daughters laptop each day when she is at uni, I have the basic system working now, the next part is to use an old pent111 with a very basic os and use two 1TB (or larger) IDE hard drives with a pci 'raid' card .
As anyone had any problems using large hard drives on old machines under Linux.?
« Last Edit: June 06, 2012, 09:47:22 PM by tickmike »
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Re: Using Large Hard Drives
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2012, 04:33:07 PM »
I've no experience of using RAID, but putting that aside, I don't think there's any problem so long as you have a boot partition at the start of a disk, so the old BIOS can find it to boot from. After that, large disk support is provided by the disk driver, independently of the BIOS. But I'm unsure how RAID fits in with that.
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Re: Using Large Hard Drives
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2012, 09:55:36 PM »
I forgot to say these drives are for storage only as there will be a small hard drive to boot from. ;)
I will have to look for the raid card and find its spec.
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Re: Using Large Hard Drives
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2012, 04:04:55 PM »
Quote from: tickmike on June 06, 2012, 09:55:36 PM
I forgot to say these drives are for storage only as there will be a small hard drive to boot from. ;)
I will have to look for the raid card and find its spec.

why bother with RAID anyway? I simply have two disks and rsync the one to the other daily.

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