[SLE] SuSE 6.4, Abit BP6 and a 40GB Drive
I've got a maxtor 40gb drive (16063 cyl, 16 head, 63 secs) that SuSE 6.4 (Yast1/yast2) is only seeing 7gb of. I was under the impression that this new 6.4 would be able to handle large drives correctly? Ideas? It's really starting to really annoy me that I'm going to have to put NT on this drive to get it usable. Ben -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Do you have the drive properly configured in the BIOS? Does the BIOS actually see a 40GB hard drive? If not, you might need a BIOS update. You might have to change the hard drive type from "auto" to "LBA" to make it work. The only complication that you should be concern with as far as large hard drives are concern is locating the boot sector and lilo in the first 1024 cylinders of the drive. Christopher Reimer On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Ben Taylor wrote:
I've got a maxtor 40gb drive (16063 cyl, 16 head, 63 secs) that SuSE 6.4 (Yast1/yast2) is only seeing 7gb of. I was under the impression that this new 6.4 would be able to handle large drives correctly?
Ideas? It's really starting to really annoy me that I'm going to have to put NT on this drive to get it usable.
Ben
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
Do you have the drive properly configured in the BIOS? Does the BIOS actually see a 40GB hard drive? If not, you might need a BIOS update. You might have to change the hard drive type from "auto" to "LBA" to make it work. The only complication that you should be concern with as far as large hard drives are concern is locating the boot sector and lilo in the first 1024 cylinders of the drive.
I've got it hanging of the Highpoint controller, and disabled the IDE controllers. I can boot just fine, but it doesn't recognize it correctly. Do I have to hang it off the IDE controller and then move it when I'm finished with the install? Ben -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
That's a possibility. Check to see if the boot disk has a module option for the Highpoint controller. It's quite possible that the Highpoint is being detected as a basic IDE controller and that you need to load an additional module driver to enabled the advance features, including large drive support. If you do install properly, you will probably have to roll your own kernel to support the Highpoint controller. Christopher Reimer On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Ben Taylor wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
Do you have the drive properly configured in the BIOS? Does the BIOS actually see a 40GB hard drive? If not, you might need a BIOS update. You might have to change the hard drive type from "auto" to "LBA" to make it work. The only complication that you should be concern with as far as large hard drives are concern is locating the boot sector and lilo in the first 1024 cylinders of the drive.
I've got it hanging of the Highpoint controller, and disabled the IDE controllers. I can boot just fine, but it doesn't recognize it correctly. Do I have to hang it off the IDE controller and then move it when I'm finished with the install?
Ben
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* Ben Taylor (bent@clark.net) [20000412 02:40]:
controllers. I can boot just fine, but it doesn't recognize it correctly.
In order for the HPt Controller to really work, you *have* to choose the
Kernel for special EIDE chipsets. And even then the HPt chip does seem to
have problems in SMP systems.
But for your size problems I would check Abits website for a BIOS update, as
36 GB is one of size hurdles in the IDE game park.
Philipp
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