On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Alan Mead wrote:
> I have an old Dell with an adaptec SCSI controller, an old 4GB Seagate
> drive, and a Seagate STT28000NS tape drive. I need more space for the
> backup process so I bought a cheap EIDE drive. Well, even cheap drives
> these days are huge; I got a 13.6 GB Western Digital.
>
> When I install the drive the BIOS does not recognize it. If I make the
> BIOS recognize it, it gets recognized as hdc and the system won't boot
> (presumably the BIOS insists on booting the IDE). There is no bios setting
> for "boot from SCSI first".
>
> So, two questions:
>
> Anyone know that I can or cannot boot the SCSI? It wouldn't be the end of
> the world to install Linux on the IDE and boot it...
>
> However, I cannot get the WD to be recognized for all 13.6 GB. I tried
> many bios and jumper settings and all I ever get is 8.4 GB. I guess I need
> to get the BIOS to recognize all 13.6 in order to fdisk it, right? Any ideas?
>
> TIA!
>
> -Alan Mead
>
One thing you could try is to not tell the BIOS about the drive, and then
tell LILO about it, specifing the disk geomatry. Then you could keep
booting from the SCSI drive, and use fdisk (or cfdisk) in Linux to
partation the drive. I haven't tryied this, but from reading the LILO
docs, you should be able to do this. Something like:
Disk /dev/hda
INACCESSIBLE
HEADS=<heads>
SECTORS=<sectors>
CYLINDERS=<cylinders>
You might also be able to let the BIOS see the drive, and tell LILO the
correct info, then try using fdisk in linux to use partation the space
that the BIOS doesn't see - just make sure /boot is in the part the BIOS
can see!
Mikkel
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