Topic: Hard Disk size

[Bela]

What is the biggest single hard drive size that SME can run on? I have a 200 Gig hard drive and I run into issues left and right with it running 5.6 on.

Thanks,

Bela.

[Paul]

According to RedHat, the largest IDE disk size for the 2.4 kernal is 137 GB.  SCSI drives are technically "unlimited" but any block size can not exceed 1TB.

You will probably experience major problems with your 200 GB drive unless it is a SCSI device.

Hope this answers your question,

Paul

[Tony]

We use 160 GB drive, IDE and can use all the space on it. We did not meet any problems during setup.

[Bela]

I guess that it' an ebay item now.

 Thanks guys.

Bela.

[David Woolley]

Rather than scrap the drive, could you create a 137GB partition and wait for a more capable kernel?

[Bela]

Good point.

Thanks guys,

Bela.

[Laurence Griffiths]

Or you could find a supported RAID card that uses IDE devices. The SME server will see this as a SCSI device.

Whatever you do, DON'T get a Highpoint RocketRAID 404 card. - I am still having fun (NOT!) getting this to work.

[Garfield]

Just looked up the release notes for the 2.4 kernel again.

As of kernel 2.4.18 LBA48/ATA133 support for drives larger than 137 GB has been included.

SME 6.01 runs on kernel 2.4.20-18, so the only limitation for large IDE drives will be the BIOS I guess. (Or is the BIOS bypassed - not sure how that exactly works ?)