Hi all! I have a quite old computer (a K6 233). Unfortulately last week the hard drive broke up. Now I have a new Maxtor 40Gbyte D740-6L and I want to put it there, but the BIOS does not agree. When trying to probe the primary master it hangs. I know that Linux Kernel does not trust the BIOS about IDE drives, so I want to try to bypass the BIOS with another older hard drive. The problem is: how? I think I have to disable the IDE controller in which the new HD is plugged, will Linux "feel" the new HD in the correct way? Could I do this with a booting cdrom? (ie: just booting, loading the kernel then mounting root on the new HD). Praise
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 19:40, Praise wrote:
Hi all!
I have a quite old computer (a K6 233). Unfortulately last week the hard drive broke up. Now I have a new Maxtor 40Gbyte D740-6L and I want to put it there, but the BIOS does not agree. When trying to probe the primary master it hangs. I know that Linux Kernel does not trust the BIOS about IDE drives, so I want to try to bypass the BIOS with another older hard drive. The problem is: how? I think I have to disable the IDE controller in which the new HD is plugged, will Linux "feel" the new HD in the correct way? Could I do this with a booting cdrom? (ie: just booting, loading the kernel then mounting root on the new HD).
I suspect that the problem is related to the old bios, which probably cannot handle drives bigger than 8 GB, or possibly around 2 GB if it is a really old machine. There is software that can do translation and fool the bios into working with the bigger drive. The Linux kernel knows about it and will work with it. I have this arrangement working on an older laptop (dual booting even) with no problems. I think the software is made by Ontrak, but it any event, it is free, and a version of it can be downloaded from IBM's web site. If you can't locate it, let me know and I will find it for you. I've dug it up once, and I should be able to do it again. {:^)> It may also be on Maxtor's site. -- Regards, Malcolm KMail l.3.1 -- KDE 2.2.2 -- SuSE Linux 7.3 Remove the dots to email me
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:40:06AM +0100, Praise wrote:
Hi all!
I have a quite old computer (a K6 233). Unfortulately last week the hard drive broke up. Now I have a new Maxtor 40Gbyte D740-6L and I want to put it there, but the BIOS does not agree. When trying to probe the primary master it hangs.
I have exactly the same symptom with Fujitsu 40G drive on FIC PA-2013 motherboard. Actually, I have two drives, one 20G, the other is 40G. There is no problem with 20G drive, but when I enable 40G drive in BIOS (set it to AUTO), computer hangs on drive check.
I know that Linux Kernel does not trust the BIOS about IDE drives, so I want to try to bypass the BIOS with another older hard drive. The problem is: how? I think I have to disable the IDE controller in which the new HD is plugged, will Linux "feel" the new HD in the correct way?
I disabled 40G drive in BIOS, i.e. set it to NONE. The only bad consequence from that is that I cannot boot from 40G drive. Otherwise, Linux is happy with it.
Could I do this with a booting cdrom? (ie: just booting, loading the kernel then mounting root on the new HD).
My way out of this was to keep /boot partition on 20G drive and boot off 20G drive. 40G drive is connected as slave on the same interface as 20G drive (which is master), and contains / and other partitions. Booting off CDROM will also work. -Kastus
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:40:06AM +0100, Praise wrote:
Hi all!
I have a quite old computer (a K6 233). Unfortulately last week the hard drive broke up. Now I have a new Maxtor 40Gbyte D740-6L and I want to
there, but the BIOS does not agree. When trying to probe the primary master it hangs.
I have exactly the same symptom with Fujitsu 40G drive on FIC PA-2013 motherboard. Actually, I have two drives, one 20G, the other is 40G. There is no problem with 20G drive, but when I enable 40G drive in BIOS (set it to AUTO), computer hangs on drive check.
I know that Linux Kernel does not trust the BIOS about IDE drives, so I want to try to bypass the BIOS with another older hard drive. The problem is: how? I think I have to disable the IDE controller in which the new HD is
Err... have u guys try to flash the mobo bios with an updated one?
I've updated my bios a week ago for my pentium II PC. The same problem like
y'all, I bought a new 100Gb drive. APfter flashing, it works fine..
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From: "Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka"
will Linux "feel" the new HD in the correct way?
I disabled 40G drive in BIOS, i.e. set it to NONE. The only bad consequence from that is that I cannot boot from 40G drive. Otherwise, Linux is happy with it.
Could I do this with a booting cdrom? (ie: just booting, loading the kernel then mounting root on the new HD).
My way out of this was to keep /boot partition on 20G drive and boot off 20G drive. 40G drive is connected as slave on the same interface as 20G drive (which is master), and contains / and other partitions.
Booting off CDROM will also work.
-Kastus
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:33:51PM +0800, Mohammed Maeraj Hasbi wrote:
Err... have u guys try to flash the mobo bios with an updated one?
I wish there existed one...
I've updated my bios a week ago for my pentium II PC. The same problem like y'all, I bought a new 100Gb drive. APfter flashing, it works fine..
The latest FIC BIOS version for PA-2013 is JI438, released 4/8/00, this is what I have on my motherboard. Anyway, it's only a problem with booting, and as long as I keep two drives, there is no problem at all. -Kastus
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