Hi,
I am wondering if large disks (above 137GB) works with the Pegasos I
in Debian. I need to put my left-over Pegasos I (April2) in use since
I bought my Pegasos II-G4. It will be used as desktop (using KVM) aswell
sharing the large disk in this network.

The 200GB WD disks only cost 1100 SEK at the moment, 300 more than a
120GB drive. What about 250GB disks?

So, I need to know if also the Pegasos has problems with LBA48 as the
Intel-world does.

Seriously? Noone every tried larger disks than 120GB
in their Pegasos?

There shouldn't be any problems with a larger harddrive, linux itself does support 2TB and as Pegasos works well with 120GB harddrives, there aren't anything that talks agains a 160Gb or larger harddrive for that matter.

I do have only a 120GB in mine and it seems to work really well.
You can always try and tell us if it don't work.

I have a Maxtor ATA133 160Gb 7200rpm 8Mb-Cache works fine no problem!

I brought MorphOS1.4.2 and Linux

Greetings Cor van Londen.


[ Edited by pegasosuser on 2004/8/15 10:57 ]

Trizt: Well, since drives larger than 137GB doesn't work on the
AmigaONE/OS4 it would not surprise me at all if it didn't work
for us either.


Pegasosuser: Thank you very much! I will give it a try.

Hi ironfist

The AmigaOne and the Pegasos is not the same thing

However Im not using such big harddrives myself, so haven't investigated in what kind of problem could occur, but haven't heard of any limitations with the Pegasos.

I could eventually think of that to big partitions eventually could cause problems with FFS in MorphOS, but not the size of the harddrive initself. Dont know how about in Linux, perhaps best to have a look into different filesystems as well.

Gunne


[ Edited by gunne on 2004/8/15 12:26 ]

I don't have any problems with a 160GB drive (really 149GB) and Linux. Its MorphOS that has the problems...

A friend of mine bought a 160GB drive for his Pentium 4. Windows XP can only access the first 100GB of it whereas Linux has no problem using all 160GB. This sounds like a software problem to me and as such I would assume that a Pegasos running Linux wouldn't have any problems accessing a standard drive no matter what size it is.

You really should stop comparing the Pegasos with your windows box :)

dholm:
Haha! Well. The rather recent Windows-machines of today that still only has ATA100
(earlier EPIAs, my AthlonXP-machine etc) are limited to 137GB.
The ATA133 was not only just a speed "upgrade" but also a way to bypass this limit.

Therefore I have always believed (until proven otherwise) that all ATA100 controllers
have this limit. But as it seems to be software, or maybe BIOS, wise I won't
worry anymore.

Thanks to all who replied.

So what problems has MorphOS with 160GB or more HDD? Im very interested about this since I will upgrade it with some bigger HDD...

I have build a other Maxtor HD I have now a totaal of 320Gb and works
good!

ONLY PEGASOS MAKE IT POSIBLE!

greetings Cor van Londen.

Jepp! I bought my 200GB WD disk and it runs just
fine under Debian. Currently installing!

There were no issues - what-so-ever - neither with
Debian nor Open Firmware.

Rawks!

You can read about the size limit on Maxtor's home page. They are the ones who made the 48-bit solution that is now standard for new large HDDs.

Maxtor info about >137GB drives

ATA133 was the first controller to support it, but there are some newer ATA100 controllers that has support for LBA 48-bit as well.

[ Edited by Black_Eagle on 2004/8/23 9:35 ]

@dholm:

That should be 130GB max actually.... You have to enable 48bit LBA support in the registry of XP/2000 to be able to see big disks... And it's not enabled by default. :)

[ Edited by ChaoZer on 2004/8/23 16:03 ]

All people talking about linux and PCs, but what about MorphOS? It has
problems with 160+ GB HDD? Please explain it...

Hi!
About a week ago I bought an additional 160GB HD
(1st is 120 GB). Both work GREAT on
MOS(Peg1)....
bye
frostwork

Well, but then why does not work the Seagate 200GB HDD on MorphOS for me? It always crashes when I try to access the over 137GB part of the disk with DOpus or 'copy' command. But it's still working with Ambient (but it's IMO a little bit slower and uses more CPU). The disk is formatted with SFS. (I have tried FFS too: if I format the partition in FFS, MOS stops booting at all...)

Please help me!

i currently have 2 seagate 200gb hd's in my
pegasos, so guess it works

Which version of SFS do you use? (Or not SFS?) How many and how big partitions do you have? Have you ever tried to write above the 137GB border? With which program?

What max transfer and mask type do you use?

[ Edited by GK_LKA on 2005/1/20 19:25 ]

Hi,

very interesting discussion. Again I wish we
would have a central bug-database for MorphOS.

Status here: 160G Samsung HD on PegasosII,
dh2 with sfs has very strange problems,
sfscheck does not find an errors, but
often when using the partition the
corresponding task just stalls.

dh2 is located at (Parted)
Start 67507.879 Stop 137623.599

All other partitions seem to work fine. Last
one is ext3 anyway and using the rest of the
hd space.

Sounds like the same as at me. So does MOS have trouble with big hard disks?

Maybe have I wrong maxtransfer/mask/block size? (0xffffff/0xfffffffe/512)