If he's not trying to boot from the disk, the BIOS settings are irrelevant, and he can continue to boot a kernel from somewhere, and that should detect the drive.
If he needs to boot from that disk ... well, how about a boot floppy permanently taped to the machine? :-) -jim On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 12:40, John Winter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on the phone to Paul William, he brought a new 120gb seagate > hard-drive he is trying to install on his linux router (very mission > critical). The BIOS refuses to detect it and will hang regardless of > any BIOS settings unless he puts the jumper on that limits the drive > to 32gb. The BIOS was produced in 1997 and is an AWARD BIOS. Is there > a way in linux to override the drives 32gb jumper limit, or has anyone > had a similar problem and managed to find a way around it. His kernel > version is 2.4.18 running Debian woody. > > Thanks, > > John Winter (on behalf of Paul William)
