Re: HD access
* Nathan E Norman (nnorman@incanus.net) wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote:
> > Happy new year...... and
> > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master.
> > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ???
> > Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mode, etc..
> > without success.
> > MB Pentium (1) 233Mhz.
> > The strange thing is that he did it before I mounted him
> > on my new box where he runs as a charm.
> > Any help would be very appreciated.
>
> I must be missing something, but it doesn't really matter whether your
> BIOS can "see" all of your drive or not. Linux doesn't use the BIOS
> to talk to the drive, so as long as you can get linux to boot you're
> ok.
>
> I have an ancient Pentium 90 whose BIOS is convinced that no hard
> drives are attached! Yet the system boots fine :)
>
> --
> Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
> temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
> -- Benjamin Franklin
Reading this should enlighten you as to why you've no problems and the
thread starter has :-)
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-11.html
Cheers,
Euan
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