Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: USB stability - possibly printer related | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:52:54 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I will have to reboot to find this out. However, it was the latest > available a couple months ago when I bought the drive, and found out the > normal BIOS for the regular IDE controllers hung the computer when it hit > the 40GB drive during boot.
There are various ways around this. One bizarre one for Linux boxes is to set the box to boot off a floppy, stick a boot floppy into it and then tell the BIOS there is no IDE drive on hda. Linux for most controllers will find it anyway - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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