Re: [PLUG] linux hard drive troubles

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

As I understand, with the disclaimer that I understand software rather
well and hardware rather poorly, once LILO takes over, it never looks
back.  The BIOS don't matter to linux except as a laborer to figure
out enough about the hardware to load LILO.

I might be wrong...

But this is why the LBA limit stuff affected boot (where LILO and the
MBR could be) but not linux's ability to use larger partitions.


Here's a semi-unrelated pointer to the very cool linux BIOS project:

    http://www.linuxbios.org/

-Jeff



On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:21:17AM -0500, Jesse Huestis wrote:
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> 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?
> 
> Jesse
> 
> Michael Lazin wrote:
> 
> > I got a new ultra ATA 133 40 gig hard drive for Christmas and I tried 
> > putting it in a pentium II machine running redhat 9.  I used fdisk to 
> > create a partition for it and makefs to create a filesystem but when I 
> > did df -h /dev/hdb it said I only had about 3 gigs on the drive.  Do I 
> > need a controller card to use this hard drive on this system?  If so, 
> > can anyone recommend an inexpensive controller card for this drive 
> > that will work with linux?
> >
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