[wellylug] New HDD on old motherboard

David Zanetti dave2 at wetstring.net
Mon Dec 6 08:41:20 NZDT 2004


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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, David Antliff wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Richard Hector wrote:
> >> Is that "doesn't recognise" a "thinks is smaller than 80G" or "refuses
> >> to see entirely"?
> >
> > "hangs when it tries to detect - even ESC to skip doesn't work"
>
> I take it you've tried the 32GiB jumper trick? With autogeometry resize
> support in the kernel, you might get past this BIOS problem. No idea about
> your chipset issue however.

If Linux is on another disk in the system, try telling the BIOS nothing
about the drive. You might need to ensure it's the only drive on whatever
IDE chain you put it on, but Linux should find it anyway.

Common trick. I had to do it a lot for my first 200G spindles, before I
upgraded a motherboard to one that supported LBA48.

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