Re: [PLUG] Re: linux hard drive troubles

[Michael Lazin <michael@lazinweb.homelinux.net>]

I called technical support on this issue and they insist that this is a  
bios limitation and I need a controller card.  This leads me to this  
question, what would be a ATA-100 controller card to use with Linux?

Thanks,

Michael


On Dec 29, 2003, at 8:49 AM, Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Jesse Huestis wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Jeff has some very good advice.
> >
> > Can you see the drive correctly in the systems BIOS?
> >
> > Jeff,
> >
> > I am wondering, as I have had the same problem with some older  
> > machines
> > and the ATA 133 drives, do the other *FDISK programs see the drive
> > correctly even if teh BIOS does not?
>
> You should be able to set the bios to type none and linux should  
> detect it
> properly. Assuming you are not trying to boot from the thing.
>
> HTH,
>
> ............Tom
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