Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

[mimo <mimo@restoel.net>]

okay - I just read:

"For large IDE disks (over 137 GB): make sure your kernel is 
2.4.19/2.5.3 or later."

in the Large Disk HOWTO http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-1.html

Sorry - this works fine

Michael

mimo wrote:
> I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but couldn't find 
> anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives in the machine - 200 Gig 
> each.
>
> dmesg:
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
> PIIX4: chipset revision 5
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0, ATA DISK drive
>
> *snipsnip*
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63
> hdb: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63
>
> so the kernel detects it as 137 MB only
>
> This is on..
> mimo@blue:~$ uname -a
> Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown 
> unknown GNU/Linux
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Michael Moritz