RE: big IBM harddisk
Now that's awfully silly; what if his needs are storage and not
processing? The last thing linux folks ought to be doing is following the
Microsoft "You must have at least a 1Ghz processor to write a shopping
list" line.
On motherboards.com, he'll pay approx. $300 for a new motherboard and CPU,
*assuming* (probably incorrectly) that his existing RAM and case will work
with them. Same place, he can get a 60G hard drive for $245. You do the
math.
On the original question: I agree that there's probably some physical
problem (cables connected incorrectly, drive physicially dead, jumpers set
wrong, etc.). Even if the BIOS doesn't understand the drive's geometry,
it should be able to see it on the bus and even allow linux to access it.
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On 26 Jun 2001, Aquila wrote:
> I think, if you can afford a 40G hard drive, and is still on a P100,
> it's time to upgrade... (motherboard included)...
>
> On 25 Jun 2001 09:06:46 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > I think you're referring to IBM's program that allows you to control the DMA
> > mode of the drive. That won't have anything to do with getting the drive
> > detected by the BIOS.
> >
> > Even if it can't talk to it, it should at least see it. Check cables, check
> > power, perhaps put the drive into another PC to check it. There are issues
> > with drives that large and usability... all three of my Abit motherboards
> > have had BIOS updates specifically to deal with drives that big and larger.
> >
> > -----
> > Marc Wilson
> > mwilson@moonkingdom.net
> > mwilson@cts.com
> > http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: virtanen [mailto:hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi]
> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 6:28 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: big IBM harddisk
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > My system is Debian 'Potato'.
> >
> > Anybody knows, what to do?
> >
> > Hannu Virtanen
> > hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi
> >
> >
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