Your advice (upgrade system BIOS, if available, newer kernel, if needed, etc.) certainly points me in the right direction and; no doubt, saves me from multiple do overs.
Rodney
At 11:36 AM 6/2/2003 -0700, you wrote:
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:06:01AM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote:
> I recently bought a 160 GB HD, and it uses the latest standard UDMA-6,
> ATA-133.
I have a 200gb wd ata 100 on a kt7a motherboard. Works fine. Plug and play.
The motherboard bios had to be upgraded to support it, but that support came
when I upgraded it over a year ago for other reasons. This time all I had to
do was plug in the drive and fdisk it in linux. Debian w/ 2.4.20 kernel. Oh
yes, I had to recompile ide support into the kernel, since I was running a scsi
only kernel, but you probably already have ide in yours.
> It includes a PCI add on card, Only necessary if your motherboard doesn't have ide >137gb support.
> which supports the new standard for a family > of OSes (not Linux). Which means they wrote bus mastering drivers for windows. That is only one family.
[snip] > One possibility I am considering is to put the 160 GB HD in an external > enclosure with an Oxford 911 chipset that provides a bridge for IDE to > Firewire and IDE to USB 2.0 [snip]
Wait, wait. Have you actually plugged in the drive?
NO. Thought I'd look before leaping in.
Put the drive in (without your pci card, unless you have an older system),
My box is about 2+ years old, BIOS was flashed about 1.5 years ago. I'll check again; hope a new upgrade for the BIOS is available.
see if your bios sees it. If not, get on the motherboard manfacturer's website and download the latest firmware for your bios. You might also look at the bug fixes to see if the firmware specifically says, "adds support to bios for drives >137gb." Then load linux with a kernel >=2.4.19 as Joseph said.
I was planning to upgrade to SuSe 's 8.2, so I'll find out which kernel it uses; and proceed from there.
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