On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> Really? LBA should allow to access <2TB.
My manual says there is a 1024 cyl max. Not 65536, which you must be
thinking of.
> > 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.
(It fails with carry set on the first LBA probe)
> I can imagine three possible causes. The first is a bug in GRUB. The
> second is a bug in your BIOS. The third is just because your drive
> does not support LBA. I think the third is plausible, since old and
> relatively small hard disk drives don't support LBA normally, and
> some hard disk drives have jumpers for switching the access mode.
To me, 2.5 G isn't relatively small. Maybe my drive really doesn't
support it. Maybe my manual is talking about
something that doesn't apply here. Is there any way I can check that
normal stage1 can access all of my drive, so I don't have to bother with
all this trouble?
