Re: [MLUG] Multi-disk controller

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I still only use 120Gb drives as that seems to be the best price ber gig.
Hrm before it'd pay to bother with USB/Firewaire IDE conversion kits I
could just buy a computer and another ethernet cable. Those conversion
kits usually cost more than a cheap computer.. kinda silly I think.

For DVD ripping/burning I'd be tempted to try firewire since I have the
ports any way. Speed isn't really much of an issue for me though.

> There is an 128GB (base 2) limit in many controller cards.
>
> http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB128-c.htm <-- a quick google
> gave me this (outdated) page.
>
> There seems to be a poorly documented bug in XP's NTFS that leads to
> massive data corruption on partitions greater than 128GB too. None of
> your Linux filesyatems will care.
>
> I don't trust IDE hot-swap. In linux that's bleeding edge stuff.
>
> Instead, how about USB or Firewire drives? Takes carse of space and
> hot-swap at once.
>
> When we moved our DVD burners to Firewire, the speed at which we could
> burn DVDs improved by 3-400%. (This is compared to haveing the drives
> attached to ithe internal IDE controller.)
>
> I'm on a really laggy connection, so I'm sending thisa with typoes
> intact.
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