Re: big IBM harddisk
Good info. I had a 486/66MHz system. I pulled out the huge 350mb hard drive
and installed my 20Gb wd. The bios seen *something* and then I installed
debian. Never had a hitch with it.I don't really think debian gives a rip
what the bios thinks at any rate!
tatah
On Monday 25 June 2001 16:37, KenrickC@aap.com.au wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk.
> >
> >My box is an old 100 MHz Pentium, with slot 5.
> >
> >The problem is that the motherboard doesn't understand the harddisk >at
> >all.
> >
> >The IBM own (DOS) program, which is supposed to help to fix the >problem
> >doesn't help. Even if I boot the box using that IBM setfix program, >the
> >motherboard doesn't find the new harddisk at all.
>
> I installed a 40Gb Western Digital hard drive over the weekend into my PII
> 300 machine as a second drive. My BIOS didn't recognise it, but Debian
> did. Have you tried installing it as a second drive? Of course, if you
> want to be able to boot from it, the BIOS will need to know about it.
> Check dmesg output to see if it comes up as a device.
>
> - Chris
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