Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> Edward Schernau wrote:
> > Installed 20.4 GB drive on my HPT366, set up a 4GB partition
> > in Windows, rebooted to Linux.
> > Linux FDISK shows 1027 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors,
> > or about 8 gigs.
>
> You need a reasonably recent kernel to get more than 8G detected. If
> you're at 2.2.14, try 2.2.15preX. Andries found another oversight that
Running at 2.2.14 patched for RAID and IDE/HPT.
> might cause your drive to be misdetected as 8G even if it is trying to
> tell the system that it's an 20G.
>
> You could also play with the "translation" settings. So change it from
> "large" to "LBA" or the other way around. One of those is bound to
> work (if you have a kernel that is more recent than half a year old).
here are no options if you hook up to the HPT.
Seems to work, but hdparm is showing funny info.
Ed
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