Using disks > 8GB

["Lance Heller" <mephisto@pulse.com>]

I've recently installed a Maxtor 90845D4 8.4GB EIDE disk as the second
disk in an old standby intel slink system I use.  I've run into 2 
problems:

1.  The system does not see past 8GB.  This is not a big deal
    but it would be nice to access the complete disk.  How can
    this be done??

2.  The problem system is an old pentium running Award bios 4.5.  
    Attempts to boot an installed system from HD with Lilo have failed, 
    boot floppies however succeed.  Boots fail shortly after finding, 
    and correctly reporting, the system disks, with a kernel panic as it
    attempts to seek beyond the end of media.  I'm attempting to 
    boot with a minimal system from the first disk partition, starting
    at cylinder 0, and believe I'm below the 1024 cylinder limit.  

    Maxtor provides EZ-BIOS with their disk as a work around for systems
    having an older bios.  Linux does not appear to use this feature.  
    E.g., after loading EZ-BIOS and completing the install, attempts to
    boot the system using the boot floppy made during the install will
    only succeed if EZ-BIOS is not loaded.  If EZ-BIOS is loaded and a
    rescue floppy booted it is possible to mount the filesystems but
    attempts to read or write the files fail.  The same process succeeds
    if EZ-BIOS is not loaded.  

    Any help or suggestions you may be able to provide will be
    greatly appreciated.

Lance




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Lance Heller                                email: lheller@unidial.com 
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