What is the name of the HOST?
I have worked with several venders to fix the 64GB BIOS hang.
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:55:09PM -0700, Shane Wegner wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure where to ask this but I have a 60gb hard drive which hangs my
> > bios when I boot up. When I installed the 32gb jumper, it worked fine but
> > Linux gave me sector not found errors when I passed it the geometry on the
> > command line. I am using 2.2.16+ide. Therefore, my idea was to disable the
> > secondary IDE controler and then bootup without the 32gb jumper installed.
> > However, Linux doesn't see the controler at that point. It was disabled in
> > CMOS but I thought Linux didn't use the BIOS.
> >
> > I even tried:
> > ide1=0x170,0x376,15
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is no BIOS update available for my board. Any
> > suggestions for getting all 60gb of this drive working under Linux would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > PS. I thought the 32gb jumper just changed the value reported. Why then
> > would it give sector not found errors.
> >
> > Maxtor 96147U8, FwRev=BAC51KJ0, SerialNo=N8043VDC
>
> See
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-11.html#ss11.3
> for a discussion.
>
> Can you add anything?
>
> You do only describe your problem in vague terms, but I would like
> to see the exact kernel boot messages and error messages about your
> disk. (For example: "sector not found errors", but is that for sector 0,
> or for sector 66055248? "passed it the geometry" - which geometry?)
> And then you mention 2.2.16+ide. What happens on a vanilla kernel?
>
> Andries
>
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Andre Hedrick
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