Re: HD access
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:52:37PM +0000, eb wrote:
> * 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 :)
>
> 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
Mmm, I wonder. According to that URL, the fix is in all kernels >
2.0.34 or 2.1.90. IOW, all kernels shipped with debian for the past
four (?) years should work fine.
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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