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Re: 120 GB hard drive on old P75



On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:50, Carl D. Blake wrote:
> I am trying to install a 120 GB hard drive as a third hard drive on a
> Pentium 75 with a cmd640 IDE interface.  I am attempting to replace a
> 60GB hard drive that has been working without any problems.  When I
> install the 120GB hard drive Linux only sees it as a 132 MB hard drive. 
> Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?  Below is the boot up
> messages with the 60GB hard drive as the third drive (hdc) and the 120
> GB hard drive as the fourth drive (hdd).
> 
> Jul 11 14:31:45 gondolin kernel: Loaded 15335 symbols from
> /boot/System.map-2.4.20-3-586tsc.
[snip]
Jul 11 14:31:46 gondolin kernel: hdd: , ATA DISK drive
[snip]
> Jul 11 14:31:46 gondolin kernel: hdd: 257040 sectors (132 MB) w/29KiB
> Cache, CHS=255/16/63

Could it be that that drive needs an 80 wire cable, or an ATA/133
controller.  I say this because the kernel doesn't even recognize
what model of disk it is.

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