* Oguz Demirkapi <oguz@smartmedia.ch> [000217 10:21]:
> I have a 40 GB HDD Maxtor DiamondMax.
> I can reach this HDD with a special software (EZ-Disk) which is
> installed into boot sector.
> After this program strats Lilo comes and my RedHat 6.1 system starts.
>
> I can see my disk partition (10 Gb & 30 Gb) disk as /dev/hda1 and
> /dev/hda2 on Linuxconf.
>
> But when I want to mount this partiton I got error msg.
>
> Are there anybody who can success define such a big HDD into RedHat. ?
Two things:
1) You don't want to boot with a partition that lives somewhere
outside of the first 1024 cylinders on a disk. This is sometimes
called the "8.4GB boundary". Though, I think that your using
EZ-Disk gets you around that. You might want to make a small
(~50MB) /boot partition at the head of the disk if it's the one
you're booting with.
2) You probably want to use a kernel version 2.2.14 or later.
I recently pruchased a 37.5GB IBM IDE disk for my mp3's (why
waste a SCSI disk on it?), and 2.2.12-20 (RH 6.1 default kernel)
wouldn't work with the disk (a multitude of errors). A lot of
work went into fixing IDE problems for 2.2.14, and my large
disk works fine for me with 2.2.15pre7 ...
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