Install: Getting beyond 2GB on old IDE
Hey, I've got an old slug for fs work. Its got a Maxtor 8GB drive. When I boot the system it hangs unless I use there jumper. cyl, Heads, Sectors Looks like 4092, 16, 63 Should be 16351, 16, 63 I thougth using cfdisk to tell it the truth would work but it doesn't just giving error that it couldn't read the disk. How / when in install do I get the full 8GB to work with. I'd really like to get do it before the dselect. TIA -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4
RE: Install: Getting beyond 2GB on old IDE
Greg, what year is the BIOS? Some BIOS' only support 540mb, or 1.6gb, or others. On 27-Nov-98 Greg Vence wrote: Hey, I've got an old slug for fs work. Its got a Maxtor 8GB drive. When I boot the system it hangs unless I use there jumper. cyl, Heads, Sectors Looks like 4092, 16, 63 Should be 16351, 16, 63 I thougth using cfdisk to tell it the truth would work but it doesn't just giving error that it couldn't read the disk. How / when in install do I get the full 8GB to work with. I'd really like to get do it before the dselect.
Re: Install: Getting beyond 2GB on old IDE
Dude, actually this is an EIDE box. 540mb was origial IDE. It seems that EIDE had a 2.0? wall. UDMA EIDE I'm not sure of the limit... However, the bus it the same so you can use larger drives on the old systems. But in dos-land you've got to get a special driver (included from maxtor). If figured that if they could get around it in software, so could we... BIOS says 8/2/95 Ideas? Thanx -- Greg. Shaleh wrote: Greg, what year is the BIOS? Some BIOS' only support 540mb, or 1.6gb, or others. On 27-Nov-98 Greg Vence wrote: Hey, I've got an old slug for fs work. Its got a Maxtor 8GB drive. When I boot the system it hangs unless I use there jumper. cyl, Heads, Sectors Looks like 4092, 16, 63 Should be 16351, 16, 63 I thougth using cfdisk to tell it the truth would work but it doesn't just giving error that it couldn't read the disk. How / when in install do I get the full 8GB to work with. I'd really like to get do it before the dselect. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4
