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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Clayton Weaver wrote: > I don't know that Linux can read a DrivePro drive. It's just an EZ-Drive partition with the drive geometry modified with the shift-2 technique. > It could use linear in lilo.conf instead, but that probably isn't much > help as far as getting from DrivePro remapped to there. > > My ancient technique on pre-lba 486 boards was to make a root partition > that ends below cyl 1024, install the base distribution and an editor, > edit lilo.conf and add "linear" to the global section up above the > per-kernel sections, reboot. I would do that, but the problem is that the drive has been paritioned before I got it in my hands and there's A LOT of software installed on it (Winblowz and Linux) and I DO want to avoid installing and configuring it... > I've been using a 1600+ cyl connor eide drive this way for a couple of > years, and the linear parameter to lilo was compatible with wd540 eide > drives and doesn't bother my digital/quantum scsi drives, either. Should > be fine with the Seagate (ps: check it with hdparm after everything is > installed to see what kind of pio mode support you get). That seagate is PIO3,4 and I have tested a similar HDD with the linear parameter and it works just fine. That's not a problem to repartition and configure a new drive like this, I was just hoping to plug the 2.1.90 in and forget about the partitions... No can do, I'm afraid. later, marek --- A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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