Joel Hammer wrote: > Oh yes. I left out that the after reboot dmesg shows this: > > hdd: MAXTOR 6L080L4, ATA DISK drive > hdd: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=155114/16/63 > > Why fdisk shows different parameters is beyond me. > Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 24042 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
what does lilo.conf look like? > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:16:19PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: > >>I have a fairly modern system, >> >>OS Release : 1.1.2 release 2.4.5-win4lin still using that old buggy kernel, eh? >> Version : #3 Wed Jul 4 16:01:48 EDT 2001 >> built with: gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release >> >>I have been using two large maxtor drives, both 80 gigs. >>I am trying to install a third 80 gig drive, drive hdd, which differs from >>drive 2 (hdb) by only one letter in the model number. >> >>The bios auto detects the drives with no problem, and reports 255 heads >>for my problem drive, hdd. HOWEVER, LINUX INSISTS THERE ARE ONLY 16. >> >>Hard disk 2 : /dev/hdb >> Model : MAXTOR 6L080J4 >> Serial No : 664132556833 >> Capacity : 76340 MB >> Cache : 1819 KB >> CHS (log) : 9732 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors >> CHS (phy) : 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors >>Hard disk 4 : /dev/hdd >> Model : MAXTOR 6L080L4 >> Serial No : 664209711463 >> Capacity : 11833 MB >> Cache : 1819 KB >> CHS (log) : 24042 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors >> CHS (phy) : 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors >> >>I have set up the bios identically with both drives. I have tried feeding >>boot parameters to the kernel with lilo. I have read and tried to follow the >>suggestions (so many) in the Large Disk How to. >> >>Nothing works. >> >>I have run Maxtor's installation software against both drives. It says that >>EZ-Bios is not installed on either one. I did try to prepare the drive with >>Maxtor software, but, I didn't have a windows or other boot disk as required >>by the Maxtor software, so I don't think anything was done to the drive. >> >>Any insight appreciated, -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 1:45pm up 86 days, 20:31, 1 user, load average: 0.99, 0.97, 0.85 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
