RE: 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.
I installed a 40Gb Western Digital hard drive over the weekend into my PII
300 machine as a second drive. My BIOS didn't recognise it, but Debian did.
Have you tried installing it as a second drive? Of course, if you want to
be able to boot from it, the BIOS will need to know about it. Check dmesg
output to see if it comes up as a device.
- Chris
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