Subj : 137GB hd cap, older motherboard, linux kernel/dist mess
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Eric Peterson
Date : Sat Nov 13 2004 12:40 am

Setting up a backup system for the office (as you may have seen from a few
of my previous questions).

Well, the new hard drive came in and I ran into a hitch.

The computer is an Dell Optiplex GX110 (Vintage 2000).  The ide controler is
ata/66.  The hard drive we bought is ata/133 300GB.  So I have now
discovered the 137GB limit of the older controller.  Well I ran out and got
a Belkin ata/133 card.  Now I've got the old 10GB disk on the motherboard
and the 300GB on the card.  System boots fine and gives bios options that
indicate the card is actually RAID.  Boots all the way into Debian
command-line just fine (Woody, kernel 2.4).

But I can't find the 300 GB disk to partition or format it.

I've tried reinstalling Debian with no luck.

I threw in a SUSE live cd and it recognized the 300GB just fine, even wanted
to install itself to it.  But I don't want all the GUI bells and whistles.
Just want a simple but secure command line system that I can administer via
ssh from the Win2k box at my desk.

Are there any options for keeping a relatively stable version of Debian?  Do
I need to learn a different form of linux?  And can I get the 300GB working
with a simple, command-line flavor?

Thanks for all the help!
-Eric

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