30 GB HD on P 133MHz

[jose sanchez]

Guys:

I have solved the problem. After two days of
troubleshooting, researching, etc... Here's how I
solved the problem:
When I set the jumpers to Master Device, the system
hanged during boot. According to the documentation
that came with the HD, I had to set two jumpers (j50 &
j46). This was supposed to work. It never did. This
configuration made Linux to think that there was only
8.4G. 

But, since linux doesn't use the BIOS to boot, I set
the jumpers back to it's original settings. Set the
BIOS to user define NOT auto (Very Important!) with
the following values: 1024 cyl, 16 h, 63 sec. This
time the system didn't hang. I proceeded with RH
installation. This time the entire 30GB existed.
Partitioned the HD and installed RH 6.2 smoothly.

This was kind of weird but it worked.

I would like to thanks everyone who responded to the
email. 

Thanx... Linux Rocks!

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jose sanchez" <j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com>
> 
> > * BIOS: AMI from August 1996.
> 
> > I bought a 30G DiamondMax Maxtor HD. It came with
> an
> > utility disk that installs EZ-BIOS.
> 
> If you can't get the Firmware BIOS to recognise the
> drive properly you can
> either try flashing the BIOS to a newer version, or
> replace the BIOS.
> (Which is a obtuse way of telling you to give up and
> replace the Motherboard
> and buy a $50 processor and some RAM while you're at
> it.  Oh yeah, and
> you'll need a new case 'cause it'll be an ATX
> motherboard.)
> 
> "EZ-BIOS" is a way to guarantee that you will
> eventually loose all the data
> on the drive, because any serious boot error will
> corrupt the "driver" it
> installs and you are HOSED.
> 

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