I use a maxtor IDE ulta 66 27 gig drive and never had a problem with it
being noticed.
/dev/hda8 3.8G 1.1G 2.5G 31% /
/dev/hda1 53M 3.9M 46M 8% /boot
/dev/hda7 980M 202M 728M 22% /transfers
/dev/hda5 19G 13G 5.1G 72% /work
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Hugo L. Varotto wrote:
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I've recently purchased a new hard drive ( 17.2 GB ) for my machine at
> home and my idea is
> to set it as a secondary drive of an already installed 6.4 GB. The new
> hard drive is a
> Western Digital 17.2 GB 5400 RPM Ultra ATA/66.
>
> The original hard drive has a dual partition ( one for NT 4 SP3 and
> another for a RedHat
> 6.1 with the 2.2.12 kernel that comes default with this distribution ).
>
> The machine is a Dell Dimension XPS D266 with a Pentium II, 128 MB of RAM,
> regular CD-ROM
> and ATAPI ZIP drive. 'Cause originally the BIOS didn't recognize the hard
> drive ( it
> was an older 1997 BIOS ) I downloaded the latest version of the BIOS for
> that machine
> from the Dell website and installed it without a problem ( this version
> supposedly knows
> about disks of this size ).
>
> Now, the problem is that the new BIOS recognized the new hard drive as a
> 17.2 GB, but
> Linux recognizes it only as an 8 GB hard drive. NT recognizes it only as a
> 2 GB hard drive,
> but that I believe is OK 'cause the documentation of the hard drive
> indicates that in order
> to get it recognized, I'll need to update NT to at least Service Pack 4. I
> don't use NT as
> much as to need to get the new service pack, so I'll devoid the new hard
> drive completely
> to Linux.
>
> So, my question is: how to I get Linux to recognize the full size of the
> hard drive ? Is
> there a special option that I need to set up in the kernel or a module to
> do it ?
> RH 6.1 comes with a program ( kudzu ) that supposedly is used to
> recognized new devices,
> but it fails miserably ( segmentation fault ) with this hard drive.
> Admittedly, I'm
> using the kudzu that comes originally with RH 6.1 ( haven't checked if
> there's an update ).
>
> If for whatever reason nobody knows what's going wrong, I could run some
> tests ( provided
> that soemone explains me what to do 'cause I've never delved in the
> filesystem modules
> of the kernel, so I'm not sure what to try ) to get this solved.
>
> Below I'm attaching the configuration of the BIOS, and the output of fdisk
> and cfdisk.
> I've created a 2 GB partition in the drive from NT to see if somehow
> afterwards Linux
> recognizes it as a 17.2 hard drive, but with no success.
>
> Please, send me a copy of your reply to hvarotto@computer.org. I'm in the
> middle of a move
> between Pittsburgh and Chicago, and had to unsuscribe from the list
> temporarily until I can
> get a new account suitable for high volume mail traffic.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Hugo
>
>
>
> -------------
> cfdisk 2.9w
> Disk Drive: /dev/hdb
> Size: 8455200768 bytes
> Heads: 64
> Sectors per Track: 63
> Cylinders: 4095
>
> Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size
> (MB)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> hdb1 Primary FAT16 [NO NAME ]
> 2111.87
> Pri/Log Free Space
> 6341.79
>
>
> --------------
>
> [root@eagle] fdisk /dev/hdb
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4095.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 4095 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 1 1023 2062336+ 6 FAT16
>
> --------------
>
> BIOS settings ( as reported from the setup utility )
>
> Phoenix BIOS 4A4LL0X0.10A.0035.D10 (A09)
> Service Tag: CX6QW
>
> Hard drive: Primary IDE slave[ WDC WD172AA.(PS)]
> Total sectors: 33687360
> Max Capacity: 17248
> Multi-sector transfer [16 sectors]
> LBA mode Control [Enabled]
> Transfer Mode [FPIO 4/DMA 2]
> Ultra DMA [Mode 2]
>
>
> I've also disabled from the BIOS the "Plug and PLay OS" entry.
>
>
>
>
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