If this is a SCSI drive check the controller setup. I've gotten this warning when
I've had the wrong setting on my AHA-2742 card. Of course I'm not worried about
pre-existing data on the disks so I can just change the settings, YMMV.
If it's an IDE drive, beware of low-level formatting. I've encountered some
serious nastiness from doing a low-level format on an IDE drive in the distant
past, details have thankfully been forgotten.
Hope this is helpful...
--Bruce McCulley
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Tom Laurie wrote:
> > I'm trying to take a server that formally had Novell on it and make it a
> > Linux server. When I boot up I get this error:
> >
> > A drive larger than 1 gigabyte has been detected with 64 head / 32 sector
> > partitioning. This drive is not compatible with the 255 head / 63 sector
> > translation which has been enabled on this adapter.
>
> If you don't care about any of the data on the drive, try this:
>
> (WARNING: This will DESTROY ALL DATA on the drive.)
>
> (1) Boot any Linux CD or diskette to get a shell prompt
> (2) Issue the command "dd bs=1024 count=1 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda"
>
> (If the disk in question is not "hda", use whatever your disk is.)
>
> This will zero the Master Boot Record and partition table, which should give
> you a clean slate.
>
> If that doesn't work, go into the system/controller BIOS setup and look for
> an option to low-level format the drive.
>
> --
> Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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