linux with BIG hard drives

[zen0n]

Does linux have any problems viewing IDE hard drives around 80GB and up? assuming the bios properly finds the drive, would be able to format the drive all to partition? like /home/ftp

zen0n

[Icarus]

I wouldn't think there would be any problems, considering most distro's have software RAID support built right in. What's the biggest HD you can buy these days, 100Gig?

[The Whizzard]

I have a Seagate Barracuda IV ATA-100 80Gig HDD in a 2 year old PII/PIII main board. Works fine for me, other than the mainboard only supports up to ATA-66.

[bigrigdriver]

So long as your kernel version is 2.3.21 or newer, there should be no problem. Older kernels would need a patch and possible a BIOS upgrade to use more that 33.8 gig. See the Large disk HOWTO for more info.