Re: Big IDE HD unclipping and IBM drive

From: Dr. Kelsey Hudson (kernel@blackhole.compendium-tech.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 16:08:03 EST


Yeah, get yourself one of those nifty add-in IDE controllers that CAN see
drives greater than 32GB. S'What I did and it works fine.

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>
> I have an IBM drive, DTLA-307075 (75GB), and a bios that hangs with
> large disks. I use a jumper to clip it to 32GB size, so the bios can
> boot into linux. The problem is that WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX returns 32GB,
> and not the true size, and even trying to set the correct size with
> WIN_SET_MAX fails. Is there a way to use this combination (Bios, HD,
> Linux)?
>
>
>

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 Kelsey Hudson                                           khudson@ctica.com 
 Software Engineer
 Compendium Technologies, Inc                               (619) 725-0771
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