Topic: 160Gb drive limitation

[Mike]

I put an 160Gb Maxtor IDE drive in my e-smith 5.5 and am trying to find out how to get it running at the full 160Gb.
The first limitation is the on board IDE-controller that does not go futher than the 32Bits limitation of 137Gb.
I would like to buy a Highpoint Rocket 133 controller because there is an opensource linux driver available and it's bios supports 48bits harddisks.
Does anyone know that if I lift this limitation with this controller, the e-smith-server 5.5 will be able to go higher than 137Gb or does e-smith 5.5 also have this 137Gb limitation.
Also I am not a Linux expert, not by far it's a matter of fact so I have never compiled an opensource linuxdriver and i have to because this old linuxkernel that e-smith 5.5 is using does not recognize any 133 IDE-controller as far as I know.
If anyone can give me a clue on how to do that I would appreciate it very much.
Many people will probably follow this because they would like to know if you can get a 160Gb drive working on e-smith so I will let you guys know if I got it working.

[Rouf Aptouli]

isn't that also a kernel issue? i've read that kernel 2.4.18 supports 160GB HD's

i haven't used SME5.5 myself, so i don't know which kernel is running on it...

i wonder if a 120GB HD would run on an SME5.12 box, even if the bios does not support it

cheers

Rouf

[macca]

i have a 120gb maxtor running fine on my 5.1.2 upgraded to 5.5 still fine
machines bios does not recognise or it at least doesnt register it at the bios scan as i have the 120gb as an ibay and have a 3.2gb as the system disc

macca

[Mike]

Thanks Rouf

E-Smith 5.6 Alpha is supposed to run on kernel 2.4.18-5.
That should mean we don't have to wait to long till we get a version that supports 160Gb drives. As far as I know it also supports 133Mbps IDE-controllers to get the drive performing as good as it can.
Also new installs will have ext3 filesystems which is a big step up to.

[Ivan]

OOOOOHHHHHHHHHH! E-smith with ext3 file system and kernel 2.4.x - iptables. Any idea on release date?

[Mike]

I wish I knew.....