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[NMLUG] big disks
Daniel Lark wrote:
>>I don't think the bios is involved, doesn't linux operate the
>>controller itself and ignore the bios completely? I wonder
>>if you've got an old controller or there's some other problem
>>with the disk.
>
>
> That's not entirely true. You can override the BIOS to an extent, but
> not completely.
>
> It sounds like this is the case on Aaron's system. Take a look at:
> http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB128-c.html. The answer seems
> to be to add a newer ATA133 controller. It seems to be a problem with
> ATA33/66/100 only being able to with LBA48 addressing.
>
> -dan
>
I may or may not have a hardware or bios limit on the disk
size here. I definately have a limit with the kernel.
I am running debian stable on a dual 1GHz machine.
The latest kernel for debian stable is 2.4.18.
It appears that large IDE support STARTED with 2.4.19.
Not wanting to get too far off the "stable" line, I tried
to patch to 2.4.19. It failed miserably. Conflicts.
Either debian's stable kernel is waaaaay patched up, or
I goofed someplace.
So... what can I do? This is a production machine, and I'm
a little afraid to tinker with it.
What was that software that allows you to use SOME unstable
packages on a stable debian system? Should I use this
to get a newer kernel?
or... can I switch over to the unstable distro totally?
Also... I have some more machines to build in the near future...
which debian image should I get as a starting poing for "unstable".
I'm currently using some flavor of "woody". Is there something
else I should use for "stable" systems?
Woody is circa 2001, but it sure looks to me like this is
the latest and greatest debian stable image. I was assuming
that "apt-get upgrade" just took me from circa 2001 stable to
the current stable distro.
I have some machines which are very conservative servers... stable.
Some development/testing machines for which unstable might be a
better choice (in order to get the latest and greatest software).
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