I recently got a 700X Gateway computer which comes with a 160 GB 6Y160M0 Maxtor hard drive. In the BIOS it is configured thus:
ATA/IDE Enhalnced (all SATA and PATA resources enabled Harddisk Pre-delay diabld LBA supported Block Mode 16 PIO Mode Mode 4 Ultra DMA 5 Cable detected Serial The SATA is on port 0, and there is a dvd rom recognized as hdc and a zip drive recognized as hdd on PATA secondary (Master and Slave). It came with Windows XP and I partitioned it while XP was on into two parts a 20 GB for the XP; the rest I used XP to partition into two primary parts and an d extended partition. I tried to install debian Linux (unstable, from a CD rom created in March) but it hang up when it is asked to mount the cdrom. I tried tomsrtbt (version 2.03) but this also does not recognize /dev/hda ( hda non-ide drive, CHS=1024/255/63). Maxtor's site gives the specifications as ACTCYLS 317632, HDS:SECT 16:63, MAXCYLS 16,383 I tried giving hd=16383,16,63 at boot time but it does not make any difference. I presumably will need a boot-disk having the latest kernel version. Any suggestions for doing this, or any other way of getting round the problem will be appreciated. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
