[ale] Maxtor >160 gig drives

[charrig at earthlink.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

I think if there is a limitation, it might be a bios issue, more so than
ext2/3.

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 16:16, Luis Luna wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone used one of the newer Maxtor 160 gig harddrives work under
> Linux? The system is PIII 550 w/ Redhat 6.2. It is running a very stable
> samba setup so I don't want to re-compile kernel, add to source
> anything. I just want to drop it in, fdisk/format and go.
> 	I know they have a driver for windows, just drop it in, install
> driver, reboot and format. 	
> 	Any ideas? Thanks for any help. I know that a promise or siig
> controller card might be needed but the maxtor site has little in the
> way of linux, the promise site has little info on linux, the siig is
> where it stated a re-compile etc.. 
> Thanks again
> 
> Luis Luna
> 
> 
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