Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[jsnyder]

This just ain't so.  I got a 45 Gig IBM drive (the same that this thread was
started on) to detect under linux on an Ultra33 controller when the turned off
IDE drive detection in the BIOS.  (The machine would hang on when it tried to
detect the drive on boot.)  The hitch was that I needed to use a seperate drive
to boot off of.  (In this case the machine had a 10,000 RPM SCSI drive already
set to be boot off of.)

Stefan Srdic wrote:

> You probly have your BIOS set to auto detect your hard drives specs!! What you
> want to do is enter the specific amount of sectors, cylinders and heads that
> your hard drive contains. This will correct your problem, Linux only sees as
> far as your BIOS does!!!