Re: Is Hard drive too big?

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:35:36PM -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paras Patel wrote: > > > I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new > > harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate, > > with a capacity of ~13GB. The f

Re: Is Hard drive too big?

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paras Patel wrote: > I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new > harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate, > with a capacity of ~13GB. The first issue that I thought was the problem > was the BIOS, so I upgraded that t

Re: Is Hard drive too big?

make sure the drives are in the correct modes in the bios, usually LBA is what you want(i believe). if that doesn't help try hard setting the disks parameters in lilo (see lilo docs for this, i've never had to do it so i dunno how :/) or, partition them with something other then linux(what i do wh

Is Hard drive too big?

Hi all: I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate, with a capacity of ~13GB. The first issue that I thought was the problem was the BIOS, so I upgraded that to the latest version. Then I thought, a