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

[jose sanchez]

I uninstalled EZ-BIOS. Tried installing RH and now RH
can't find the HD to make the partitions. It found a
hda but when trying to make partitions an error
occurs: No drive specified... It's the only drive in
this box. 

Now what?

--- Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> wrote:
> 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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