Re: 250 gig hard drives
Hi,
What I think is the problem is that any ide drive over 8 gigs lies to the
firmware. So, I don't think that it could be correct. Of course, I could
be wrong.
Thanks,
Al
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Daniele Gratteri wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:06:08 +0100
> From: Daniele Gratteri <sgratte@tin.it>
> To: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: 250 gig hard drives
> Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:06:27 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
>
> DataZap ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone on this list has put a 250 gig hard drive in an
> > Amiga with an "Acard" scsi-to-ide bridge. I know that it can be done, and
> > although I would need to put the boot partition in the first 2 gig of the
> > drive, Linux doesn't have any such limit. The partitions need to be setup
> > in HDtoolbox, and because it is an ide drive, I need to setup all the
> > geometry by hand. There is a formula for setting this up, I just don't
> > know it. Can anyone help me out with this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Al
> I suppose that, being the bridge a converter from IDE to SCSI, the
> system will see a 250 GB SCSI drive and the bridge should do the
> translation of the geometry values. I am waiting some of these bridges
> for use with my Amigas, will write about my experience as soon as I try
> them.
>
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