Re: PC164SX system building questions


krebs@qkal.sap-ag.de
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:04:29 +0200


> 3) Does RedHat support IDE disks > 8 GB? I'm thinking about buying a 13.5
> GB disk, as they're not that much more expensive than the 6 GB disks that
> seem to be the bottom end disks.

no problem here, i've got a 10GB IBM DHEA and 16GB IBM DTTA in my SX and
they both work fine :-).

the only think you should do is installing my IDE DMA patch for the SX or
otherwise the performance will be horrible. it's part of the ide udma kernel
patch and you can get it from

http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/

Andreas

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