Re: big IBM harddisk
This is not bad info at all, which you're telling, thanks alot.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lars Knudsen wrote:
> Sorry for breaking netiquette by jumping into the middle of a thread but
> here goes...
>
> Several months ago I bought a 46GB IBM disk that I tried to install in a
> PC with the same result you are having. The machine did not boot - in
> fact
> the BIOS always blocks early in the boot process, even before trying to
> boot
> from the floppy.
>
> I tried every setting I could think of, including setting "NONE" for all
> four IDE-devices in the BIOS. No luck, just a hung BIOS.
>
> I looked for a BIOS upgrade but none was available. I ended up putting
> the
> disk in another PC and nfs mounting it but this is obviously not a
> solution
> if you only have one PC or do not have a network.
>
> So why this rant ? Partly to tell you that you are probably not just
> looking
> for a simple little mistake in your setup - it might just be impossible
> to
> get it working with the hardware you have and partly to suggest a few
> possible solutions...
OK this is something I'm thinking about as well.
>
> Have you checked if a BIOS upgrade is available ? (this has probably
> been
> suggested earlier in the thread)
> Have you checked the Linux Bios project to see if they have a bios for
> your
> motherboard ?
This is something I haven't done yet. I'll try this as well.
>
> Have you tried putting the disk on the secondary ide interface and
> disabling
> the secondary ide interface in the bios ? I know it sounds like a stupid
> thing
> to do, but linux does not use the bios very much and disabling the ide
> interface might bypass the disk check that the BIOS seem to perform even
> when
> told not to, while there is still a chance that Linux can see the disk.
I tried something like this once, but then even debian don't find it at
all. I'll try to do it once again more systematically.
This is probably the thing, which should be done next first.
>
> Happy hacking,
>
> \Gandalf
regards,
-hv
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