On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Yesterday, I went out and innocently bought an 80Gb drive for a little server > I was planning on rebuilding. > > So I swapped the components from the P-166 into the AMD-K6/2-450 box (FIC > VIA-503+ mobo), connected up the drives, and booted into problems. > > Finally, I was able to have the BIOS detect it as a 8.4Gb disk, but no bigger. > The 3rd drive in this box is a 15Gb that is detected and runs great. > > I have been reading "Mark Minasi's 2003 PC Upgrade and Maintenence Guide" and > he talks about the addressing problems in the IDE/ATA BIOS space. Then he > goes on to talking about how autotranslation works to circumvent the BIOS and > allow bigger drives to run by the OS detecting the drive itself, and handling > the addressing without BIOS support . MInasi says that autotranslation is > part of some UNIXes. > > Basically, I am wondering if Linux supports autotranslation, as when I was > able to run this disk as 8.4 Gb, the kernel was able to report the disk model > number back during boot. I am now wondering if Linux supports > autotranslation, so that if I set up the BIOS correctly, the drive could be > detected and run? > I believe the answer is yes, that the Linux kernel will be able to address the entire drive. You can test this simply by trying it though, I don't think you have anything to lose. -- /g
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