On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:40:13PM -0800, John Winter wrote:
> 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.
Just thought of another option...
If you don't need to boot off of this 120GB disk, disable the disk probe
in the BIOS. For the channel that the drive is attached to, set the
drive type to "none" (or alternatively, set it to a fixed C/H/S size and
note that down for later). Linux should detect the disk as the correct
size during boot. If you had to force the disk to a fixed C/H/S size,
you may need to compile the kernel with CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE (as
mentioned in my last email) before the disk is correctly detected.
-mjg
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