On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 15:32, robertc@mindspring.com wrote:
Did not find anything in the SuSE Support DB. Any ideas for a solution are appreciated.
The Maxtor-brand cards I've seen are basically Promise reference-design boards. Go back to the SDB and look for Promise Ultra100. ;) It may also be of interest to you to know that LILO can work around the 8GB limitation of your motherboard, by feeding it geometry= arguments on boot. You *could* put the big disk on hda/b/c/d, but that may be more work than you were after. Adding another modern ATA controller is a perfectly acceptable workaround if you don't need the extra PCI slots. As a side note, all disks on the addon card will start at /dev/hde and up, and your onboard controllers will still be activated by Linux, despite the fact that you turned them off in the BIOS. If I were you, I'd put your CD, a Zip, or whatever non-harddrive devices back on the onboard controller to keep the addon processor free to handle disks alone. -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com