Yesterday, I went out and innocently bought an 80Gb drive for a little server I was planning on rebuilding.
So I swapped the components from the P-166 into the AMD-K6/2-450 box (FIC VIA-503+ mobo), connected up the drives, and booted into problems. Finally, I was able to have the BIOS detect it as a 8.4Gb disk, but no bigger. The 3rd drive in this box is a 15Gb that is detected and runs great. I have been reading "Mark Minasi's 2003 PC Upgrade and Maintenence Guide" and he talks about the addressing problems in the IDE/ATA BIOS space. Then he goes on to talking about how autotranslation works to circumvent the BIOS and allow bigger drives to run by the OS detecting the drive itself, and handling the addressing without BIOS support . MInasi says that autotranslation is part of some UNIXes. Basically, I am wondering if Linux supports autotranslation, as when I was able to run this disk as 8.4 Gb, the kernel was able to report the disk model number back during boot. I am now wondering if Linux supports autotranslation, so that if I set up the BIOS correctly, the drive could be detected and run? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
