Re: Ultrasparc5 + large IDE drive

[Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr>]

> I changed the shipped IDE drive by a Maxtor 80GB.
> The drive works fine but when partitionning with fdisk, I can only
> address 131071 cylinders.The disk has 155114 !

I've seen a co-worker get into the drive's firmware, to chage it's state
to a "lower ATA"[1], and it worked. Don't remember the capacity/model of
the disk 'do.

[1] Can't recall exactly to with one, but he changed it to ATA33 I
think.

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Alvaro Figueroa



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