hda=stroke for installer?

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to install sarge on an old (Celeron 366) machine with a new
disk.

>From what I've read, I should be able to use the jumper on my seagate
st380011a to limit it to 33.8G, then use hda=stroke on the kernel
command line (for kernels later than 2.6.7), and linux should see the
whole lot.

I've downloaded a netinst iso that has 2.6.8, so that bit should be ok,
and I then boot with either

linux26 hda=stroke

or

expert26 hda=stroke

but when I get to the partitioner, it still shows up as 33.8G rather
than the 80G it should be. Good old fdisk shows the same thing.

dmesg shows (hand typed, so there may be errors):

hda: Host Protected Area detected.
        current capacity is 66055248 sectors (33820 MB)
        native  capacity is 156301488 sectors (80026 MB)
hda: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)

so the kernel knows about the issue at some level.

My resources so far include:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st380011a.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-11.html

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Richard