On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:54:50PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: > At 14:16 29/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: > > The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb > Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise > them as 32Gb.... An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although they > are now hde and hdf...:-(
(kernel option, in the ATA/IDE section) Boot off-board chipsets first support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD Normally, IDE controllers built into the motherboard (on-board controllers) are assigned to ide0 and ide1 while those on add-in PCI cards (off-board controllers) are relegated to ide2 and ide3. Answering Y here will allow you to reverse the situation, with off-board controllers on ide0/1 and on-board controllers on ide2/3. This can improve the usability of some boot managers such as lilo when booting from a drive on an off-board controller. If you say Y here, and you actually want to reverse the device scan order as explained above, you also need to issue the kernel command line option "ide=reverse". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) Note that, if you do this, the order of the hd* devices will be rearranged which may require modification of fstab and other files. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
