[vdr] Re: OT: 149 GB Maxtor disks.

["Koch, Steffen" <steffen.koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

in last c't they said that the hdd works well with alan cox's kernel without
any compliant bios

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guido Fiala [mailto:gfiala@s.netic.de]
> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 10:04 AM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: OT: 149 GB Maxtor disks.
> 
> 
> > >
> > > 1) As this disk exceeds the 128 GB protocol limit, it will not
> > >    be plug-and-play with existing controllers/BIOSes.
> > >    Fortunately, this problem is addressed by the fact that Maxtor
> > >    bundles a controller card with it.
> > >    Will Linux 2.4.10 drivers work flawlessly with it?
> >
> > I'm using 2.4.16 with the XFS file system now.
> 
> Does that mean one has to give away one of those valuable 
> PCI-slots just for 
> an extra controller? Or is it just if you have to boot from it?
> 
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>