Re: Large disk with HPT366

From: Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 09:05:40 EST


On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0300, Wajnerman, Juan wrote:

> I have a soyo 6BA+IV motherboard that comes with HPT366
> chip to provide two ATA66 ide channels, so I installed the ide kernel
> patch to support it.
> I have a 13Gb Quantum Fireball CR ATA66 and when I connect
> it to IDE standard interface the system interprets the right geometry, but
> when I connect it to the ATA66 interface, the system interprets as 8Gb
> hard disk.
>
> Any suggestion??

What kernel? What ide kernel patch?
What are the kernel boot messages for this disk?
What does hdparm -i say?

[HPT366 defaults to CHS, and CHS cannot be larger than 8 GB,
so in itself this is not surprising. On the other hand, my
34 GB disk works just fine on HPT366 on an unpatched 2.3.47.]

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