At 08:48 PM 1/21/99 +1300, Craig Whitmore wrote:
>I tried linux hda=1247,255,63
>I have kernel 2.0.36 (Redhat 5.2 base system)
>Booting off a boot floppy .... Loads up
>and hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX10.2A 9789MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63,
>UDMA
>
>To my Knowledge 9789MB Not Equal 10.2Gig
>If I boot up in Windows with this drive it says it should be
>10263MB Total,Total LBA Sectors 20033055
>Windows Finds it great (there is a 8.4? Gig limit on win95?)
>whcih the disk manager fixes?
>
>What is the problem? Me? Linux? The Bios? The Machine? Or can't I/machine
>add up right?
>Has anyone else here one of these HDD's in their machine?
>
>Craig Whitmore
>iGRIN Intenet
>ICQ #2049916
>Email: lennon@igrin.co.nz <mailto:lennon@igrin.co.nz>
>
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Anthony Barbachan [mailto:barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com]
>> > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 4:56 PM
>> > To: Guest section DW; lennon@igrin.co.nz; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>> > Subject: Re: 10.2 Gig HDD
>> >
>> >
>> > > There should be a copy of Disk Manager that you can download from
>> > Quantum's
>> > > web site. Get it install it and that should work around the
>> > 8GB limit
>> > in
>> > > your BIOS.
>> > >
>> > >Uh, what a terrible answer!
>> > >There is no mention of any strange operating systems in the question.
>> > >I hope you do not think that Linux needs a Disk Manager (or
>> > could use one,
>> > >for that matter).
>> > >
>> >
>> > Sorry misread the message, DM wouldn't help here, this sounds
>> like an old
>> > kernel version problem. Try 2.0.36 or higher. And Linux does work with
>> > Disk Manager (I've used it myself several times); this program
>> > allows you to
>> > boot large hard drives on machine's who's BIOS doesn't recognize
>> > its native
>> > capacity.
>> >
>> >
>
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