* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > > Happy new year...... and > > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ??? > > Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mode, etc.. > > without success. > > MB Pentium (1) 233Mhz. > > The strange thing is that he did it before I mounted him > > on my new box where he runs as a charm. > > Any help would be very appreciated. > > I must be missing something, but it doesn't really matter whether your > BIOS can "see" all of your drive or not. Linux doesn't use the BIOS > to talk to the drive, so as long as you can get linux to boot you're > ok. > > I have an ancient Pentium 90 whose BIOS is convinced that no hard > drives are attached! Yet the system boots fine :) > > -- > Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. > -- Benjamin Franklin
Reading this should enlighten you as to why you've no problems and the thread starter has :-) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-11.html Cheers, Euan -- ( ) |Euan Buchanan | _o) ~oo~ |Watford | /\\ .. Gnu! |United Kingdom |_\/V / =\ \= |http://homepage.ntlworld.com/euan.b/ |Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
