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Subject: Re: 10.2 Gig HDD
Author: Peter Avalos <pavalos@doxx.net> at IAMS-MIME
Date: 19/01/99 3:45 PM
At 02:18 PM 1/19/99 , Craig Whitmore wrote:
>I just got a 10.2 Gig Quantum HDD..
>I put it in my machine.. the bios finds it.. but linux only finds the size
>up to 8.6 or something
>What can I do to fix this? Do I have to give the lilo some options for the
>kernel or what?
>
>Thanks
>Craig Whitmore
>IGRIN Internet
Is your bios reporting the correct size of the drive? If not, you need to
get a bios overlay to recognize a drive bigger than 8.4G. For a white paper
on the subject, read this:
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/library/8.4gb.htm.
Peter Avalos
Doxx.Net System Administrator
http://www.doxx.net/~studbolt
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