On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 01:05:38AM -0700, Cacofonixx the bard wrote:
> now onto my question ..
> ... the problem is with the 40gb hdd i got recently .. it
> simply doesnt recognise the 40 gb hdd as 40 .. it recognises
> it as 32 gb .. how do i get around it ..
This is not an easy solution. Drives larger than 33.8 GB will
not work with kernels below 2.3.21. Command line parameters
like hdc=5120,255,63 will not work at all ...
Patches for old kernels are available ...
Go to www.linuxdoc.org and have look at Large-Disk-HOWTO ...
Last updated in Mar 2001 (in case the one on your installed
system is older). Links to several kernel patches are given
there.
Try a kernel patch solution before you think of stuff like a
change of bios or jumpering the bios ...
> The major soln that has occured to me .. is to upgrade the
> bios ..
No ... Not yet. Try kernel patch first ... You need help of a
friend in the locality to compile a patched kernel on a work-
ing box ... This issue you will have to tackle yourself !
> there are some utilities for this maybe .. but i dont know
> .. can someone guide me on this pls?
>
No utilities. You need to attack this problem at the kernel
level.
> But above all do these softwares work ..i dont want to find
> my comp totally unworkable after something like this ..
Most of the patches are at ftp.kernel.org, made by the same
folk who made it all happen in the first place! They do work.
In any case, in case you have a dual boot system with Win-2k,
9x or NT in the first partition, you should not be stuck !
Bish.
PS: Incidentally ... this topic is definitely NOT [OT] :-)
It is more Linux than most mails are ! I almost deleted
it without reading because of the [OT] prefix !
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