Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Hello Roel,
Wednesday, Wednesday, November 17, 1999, you wrote:
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Roel> Hello tracer,
t>> Doesnt mean there is no access to your mail...
t>> You can even have visitors with a firewall!
t>> I haven never seen a Ms product without a hole here and there....
Roel> no, but my mail is as 'save' as everyone's... (maybe a bit safer,
Roel> cause progs like backorifice or Netbus don't stand a chance behind a
Roel> proxy... - or am I mistaken here?)
I leave this to someone else to comment on as I havent got the time to
visit your system (g).
t>> never seen that before as if you have a standard ide or SCSI interface
t>> Linux SHOULD find the drives you want to install on.
t>> if done properly its also a lot more secure.
Roel> no, only dos finds the drives...
Roel> even worse: if there's no dos in my boot-sector, the bios won't even
Roel> recognise the disk... (and that goes for nt as well... I'm forced to
Roel> running 95/98 systems...)
As said, describe motherboard/processor/bios and what linux you used as
this makes absolutely no sense.
t>> Linux has many oddities (especially the ones I run as they are
t>> development versions) but I never had problems finding drives
Roel> as said before: the problem isn't just linux, but also sco-unix, beos,
Roel> and now even NT...
Roel> the only clue I have is my bios setting:
Roel> since it's a rather old motherboard, I'm forced to use 'extended
Roel> chs'... lba-mode finds about 500 mb of a 3.1GB disk...
sounds like this is the reason..
Once you fiddle with the bios, almost any os gets a problem unless you
use special tools to get at the other part of the drive....
Roel> I think it has something to do with that... but I can't figure out why
Roel> the bios rejects the drive if there's no dos-bootrecord...
t>> (unless you are talking DMA66 but thats kind of unlikely!!)
Roel> for the record: I just bought 2 13GB-UDMA66 drives for 150$ each...
Roel> (yep, new ones, fully tested & working!)
Roel> they aren't that unlikely anymore :-)
On your board extreemly unlikely!!
Roel> motherboards that support udma66 however...
correct...
Best regards,
tracer
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