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#184658 - 15/10/2003 16:00 Max HDD Capacity on empeg
NT2OOO member Registered: 31/03/2002 Posts: 103 Loc: ITALY	empeg can support 80gb HDD? i want buy 2 80gb drives thanks for reply _________________________ Rio Green 60Gb
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#184659 - 15/10/2003 16:32 Re: Max HDD Capacity on empeg [Re: NT2OOO]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14491 Loc: Canada	No problems anywhere, up to dual 120GB drives. So two 80GB drives are just peachy.
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#184660 - 15/10/2003 16:38 Re: Max HDD Capacity on empeg [Re: mlord]
jbauer veteran Registered: 08/05/2000 Posts: 1429 Loc: San Francisco, CA	Do they MAKE 120 GB HDs in the right form factor for the empeg? I thought that 80 was the largest... at least the largest that IBM makes now... right? - Jon
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#184661 - 15/10/2003 16:43 Re: Max HDD Capacity on empeg [Re: jbauer]
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	No, they don't make 120GB laptop drives quite yet. It's the addressing limit for LBA which means you end up with a max of roughly 120GB. If you want to go bigger then you need a LBA48 capable kernel. Mark has a patch but I can't remember if he normally includes it in Hijack.
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#184662 - 15/10/2003 16:44 Re: Max HDD Capacity on empeg [Re: jbauer]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Do they MAKE 120 GB HDs in the right form factor for the empeg? Not yet. But they will someday. The empeg kernel has (I think) been upgraded to handle drives larger than 128, but the disk builder images have not (at least not yet). So if they make drives larger than 120, we'll need to do some work to make sure all the support files can run with drives that big. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#184663 - 15/10/2003 17:25 Re: Max HDD Capacity on empeg [Re: tfabris]
pgrzelak carpal tunnel Registered: 15/08/2000 Posts: 4859 Loc: New Jersey, USA	And depending on your exact situation, you may run into some interesting quirks. Nothing major - I have been running dual 80s for a while now... _________________________ *Paul Grzelak* 200GB with 48MB RAM, Illuminated Buttons and Digital Outputs
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#184664 - 15/10/2003 20:55 Re: Max HDD Capacity on empeg [Re: tfabris]
Daria carpal tunnel Registered: 24/01/2002 Posts: 3937 Loc: Providence, RI	The magic number isn't 137?
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#184665 - 15/10/2003 21:02 Re: Max HDD Capacity on empeg [Re: Daria]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14491 Loc: Canada	137,438,953,512 bytes, or 128GB. Your choice.
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#184666 - 15/10/2003 21:22 Re: Max HDD Capacity on empeg [Re: mlord]
Daria carpal tunnel Registered: 24/01/2002 Posts: 3937 Loc: Providence, RI	"Not 120".
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