[nylug-talk] 30 GB HD on P 133MHz

[Brian Densmore]

That was going to be my recommendation too. I would try to get the BIOS
to detect the HD without the EZ-BIOS. But if that fails, and you are
only going to run Linux on it, Linux will still detect the HD, it
doesn't use the BIOS. You might try this before upgrading the BIOS. Put
that would be the next logical step. EZ-BIOS is a piece of crap written
to deal with stupid Windoze limitations! It also slows down your HD.

$.02,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oktay Altunergil [mailto:oktay at optonline.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:54 AM
> To: nylug-talk at nylug.org; kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] 30 GB HD on P 133MHz
> 
> 
> Although I thought Linux should have no problem detecting and 
> using it, I
> recommend highly against using EZ-BIOS. It will mess up your 
> hard disk at
> some point or another. Instead I would recommend upgrading 
> your BIOS, if
> it's flashable.
> 
> Oktay
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jose sanchez" <j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com>
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>; <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:50 AM
> Subject: [nylug-talk] 30 GB HD on P 133MHz
> 
> 
> > Ok. Here I go again with my problems. I need help on
> > this one.
> >
> > * BIOS: AMI from August 1996.
> >
> > I bought a 30G DiamondMax Maxtor HD. It came with an
> > utility disk that installs EZ-BIOS.
> >
> > Ok... I ran the utility disk and installed EZ-BIOS.
> > Now, I am trying to install RH 6.2. When the
> > installation starts or when the kernel starts to
> > extract itself (when is detecting the HD, Mem, etc..)
> > it finds the HD and it says something similar to: hda
> > maxtor 30708MB. This means it found or knows that the
> > box has a "big" HD, right?
> >
> > When I get to make the partitions with either ddruid
> > or fdisk it's only detecting 8.4GB. How can I get
> > Linux to detect the whole 30G on this HD.
> >
> > Note:
> > I also booted with a Win98 boot disk and ran fdisk and
> > tried making a FAT partition and it only detects 2.4G.
> > I know FAT has some limitations... I also tried
> > partitioning the drive with Partition Magic; I get an
> > error saying "unable to initialize engine" and crashes
> > after that. I'll find more info about this error on
> > their website.
> >
> > Please HELP! And thanks in advance for your support.
> >
> >
> >
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