Hello! I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB? Seth R. Payne Education Marketing Legato Systems www.legato.com 801.437.8180 "World Domination. Fast." -- Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux Operating System
Erm, does Linux read the BIOS for that info? Although I believe there maybe another way if you can specify cylinder/heads etc... Wish I had an 80GB HD, thought 15GB was good, but only have 1.9GB left.. Matt On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Seth Payne wrote:
Hello!
I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB?
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Seth, Spend some of that phat cash your making and buy a PCI IDE controller and then disable the onboard controller...and problem solved. It's what I would do. Regards, * Seth Payne (SPayne@Legato.com) [010216 13:59]: =>Hello! => =>I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The =>problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB =>drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB? => => => =>Seth R. Payne =>Education Marketing =>Legato Systems www.legato.com =>801.437.8180 => "World Domination. Fast." =>-- Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux Operating System => => => =>-- =>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/faq => Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
What processor are you using? What sort of RAM? My memory from 3 years ago is not that great... Getting a new motherboard maybe the way to go, or check for BIOS upgrade. Matt On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Seth Payne wrote:
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I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB?
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Seth Payne wrote:
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I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB?
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The drive should come with a DOS utility on a floppy. As a Linux user the utility itself won't do you much good, but use the menus to find the cylinders, heads, and sectors for the drive. When you find them, boot Linux, open your /etc/lilo.conf file and write something into the global section (which is the first section, before the first "image=" statement. Write this line: append="hdx=<cylinders>,<heads>,<sectors>" Example: append="hda=1024,32,64" sends the kernel parameters for /dev/hda of 1024 cylinders, 32 heads, and 64 sectors per head. Don't forget the double quotes and commas. You can find a discussion of boot-time kernel parameters in Chapter 14, section 14.3 of the SuSE manual. In the 7.0 release you'll find help on p. 391. -- Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang
Had the same problem with my 30gb Harddrive and my two Year old Computer:
You are probably buying the matrox 80gb Harddrive. There you get a diskette
that does it all for you:
it sets Ez-Bios up (like a patch for your old bios) and Linux should detect
it as 80gb. At the worse you have to reformat the whole Pc and do the same
again.(Linux was never very good at drivers)
Pit A.
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Pit Apps is the man who has the most incompatible Pc for Linux suse but he
got it up und running.
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I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB?
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Seth Payne wrote:
Hello!
I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB?
Seth R. Payne Education Marketing
I bought a 30Gbyte Quantum HD. I am use to boot from CD or floppy and make Linux reconize the HD by itself, as the BIOS, when reconizes the HD, make Linux crash. So if you dont care about booting from floppies, you should not have any problem. Ciao, Tazio
Tazio Ceri wrote:
Seth Payne wrote:
Hello!
I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB?
Seth R. Payne Education Marketing
I bought a 30Gbyte Quantum HD. I am use to boot from CD or floppy and make Linux reconize the HD by itself, as the BIOS, when reconizes the HD, make Linux crash. So if you dont care about booting from floppies, you should not have any problem.
Ciao, Tazio
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If you look at www.ontrack.com you there is an app to menage HD
partitions that gives you the option to add a patch on the MBR if your
MB can't handle LBA correctly.
:)
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