On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Guest section DW wrote:
> 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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FYI
I use my HPT366 interface in Linux everything works great.
I use a 17GB HD.
An IBM-DJNA-371800, 17206MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=34960/16/63.
/Richard
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