Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:07:54 -0500 (EST) | From | root <> | Subject | Re: Detecting BIG ( 17.2 GB ) hard drives under Linux |
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I use a maxtor IDE ulta 66 27 gig drive and never had a problem with it being noticed.
/dev/hda8 3.8G 1.1G 2.5G 31% / /dev/hda1 53M 3.9M 46M 8% /boot /dev/hda7 980M 202M 728M 22% /transfers /dev/hda5 19G 13G 5.1G 72% /work
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Hugo L. Varotto wrote:
> > > Greetings, > > I've recently purchased a new hard drive ( 17.2 GB ) for my machine at > home and my idea is > to set it as a secondary drive of an already installed 6.4 GB. The new > hard drive is a > Western Digital 17.2 GB 5400 RPM Ultra ATA/66. > > The original hard drive has a dual partition ( one for NT 4 SP3 and > another for a RedHat > 6.1 with the 2.2.12 kernel that comes default with this distribution ). > > The machine is a Dell Dimension XPS D266 with a Pentium II, 128 MB of RAM, > regular CD-ROM > and ATAPI ZIP drive. 'Cause originally the BIOS didn't recognize the hard > drive ( it > was an older 1997 BIOS ) I downloaded the latest version of the BIOS for > that machine > from the Dell website and installed it without a problem ( this version > supposedly knows > about disks of this size ). > > Now, the problem is that the new BIOS recognized the new hard drive as a > 17.2 GB, but > Linux recognizes it only as an 8 GB hard drive. NT recognizes it only as a > 2 GB hard drive, > but that I believe is OK 'cause the documentation of the hard drive > indicates that in order > to get it recognized, I'll need to update NT to at least Service Pack 4. I > don't use NT as > much as to need to get the new service pack, so I'll devoid the new hard > drive completely > to Linux. > > So, my question is: how to I get Linux to recognize the full size of the > hard drive ? Is > there a special option that I need to set up in the kernel or a module to > do it ? > RH 6.1 comes with a program ( kudzu ) that supposedly is used to > recognized new devices, > but it fails miserably ( segmentation fault ) with this hard drive. > Admittedly, I'm > using the kudzu that comes originally with RH 6.1 ( haven't checked if > there's an update ). > > If for whatever reason nobody knows what's going wrong, I could run some > tests ( provided > that soemone explains me what to do 'cause I've never delved in the > filesystem modules > of the kernel, so I'm not sure what to try ) to get this solved. > > Below I'm attaching the configuration of the BIOS, and the output of fdisk > and cfdisk. > I've created a 2 GB partition in the drive from NT to see if somehow > afterwards Linux > recognizes it as a 17.2 hard drive, but with no success. > > Please, send me a copy of your reply to hvarotto@computer.org. I'm in the > middle of a move > between Pittsburgh and Chicago, and had to unsuscribe from the list > temporarily until I can > get a new account suitable for high volume mail traffic. > > Best wishes, > > Hugo > > > > ------------- > cfdisk 2.9w > Disk Drive: /dev/hdb > Size: 8455200768 bytes > Heads: 64 > Sectors per Track: 63 > Cylinders: 4095 > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size > (MB) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > hdb1 Primary FAT16 [NO NAME ] > 2111.87 > Pri/Log Free Space > 6341.79 > > > -------------- > > [root@eagle] fdisk /dev/hdb > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4095. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 4095 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 1 1023 2062336+ 6 FAT16 > > -------------- > > BIOS settings ( as reported from the setup utility ) > > Phoenix BIOS 4A4LL0X0.10A.0035.D10 (A09) > Service Tag: CX6QW > > Hard drive: Primary IDE slave[ WDC WD172AA.(PS)] > Total sectors: 33687360 > Max Capacity: 17248 > Multi-sector transfer [16 sectors] > LBA mode Control [Enabled] > Transfer Mode [FPIO 4/DMA 2] > Ultra DMA [Mode 2] > > > I've also disabled from the BIOS the "Plug and PLay OS" entry. > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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