On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> The real problem is not to detect LBA. Have you turned on LBA mode
> for your drive really?
Absolutely sure. I have 2 drives, my old 210 Mb on hd0, and a 2.5 G on
hd1. My bios gives me 3 choices for access: Normal, large, and LBA. hd0 is
normal, and hd1 is LBA. Large mode is some weird hack to normal mode that
allows for 1 Gb access (by allowing 32 heads). The manual mentions a 528
Mb limit for normal mode, and of course 8.4 G for LBA.
> That is not correct. Modern BIOSes allow heads up to 255. This
> method is called "logical geometry" and "Large mode". The name
> "logical geometry" is incorrect, because C/H/S is "logical" anyway,
> though. So recent BIOSes should be able to access <8GB regions,
> perhaps your BIOS can do.
My bios is from around 1995 (I think). It is an Award Software bios. I
wouldn't be suprised if it's the bios' fault. I'll try to put some extra
code in stage1_lba so I can find out which part it fails at.
