Subj : Re: 137GB hd cap, older motherboard, linux kernel/dist mess
To   : comp.os.linux
From : erik
Date : Sun Nov 14 2004 01:00 pm

Eric Peterson wrote:

> 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?

Update the kernel to the latest version, I would go for a 2.6 kernel.
Use www.backports.org to install, it is completely debian compliant.
When you have upgraded, you will see support for the belkin card is
probably there... if supported at all.

EJ

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