-- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 01:19 PM -0500): > On January 20, 2003 02:32 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can > > only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and > > access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the > > data off it that I need. I guess that'll teach me to back up to a hard > > drive (instead of removable media)... > > Check if your motherboard manufacturer has BIOS updates for your board. When > I recently ran into the same problem I was pleasantly surprised to find out > that ASUS had updates available to support large drives even though the board > was approaching 4 years of age (perhaps even 5).
I was just about to reply to the list... I needed, in order to get my alsa, lirc, and another driver working, to compile a new kernel. As it turned out, when I started poking around in my /boot directory, I discovered a number of inconsistencies -- the System.map file was linking to a System.map from several kernels previous, the wrong initrd.img was being used, etc. I installed the new kernel, resolved these problems, and voila! the disk worked fine! No need for a BIOS update -- while the BIOS won't recognize the drive unless it's reporting a size of 32GB (there's a jumper for this; if I don't have it on, the computer won't even boot), linux recognizes it fine, now. Thanks for all the tips, everyone! -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weierophinney.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
