For my new 8.4gb hard drive, I placed the Win95 partition at the front, and Windows FDISK thinks there are 1023 cylinders. Linux knows about the full 4088 cylinders, via LOADLIN boot parm "HDA=4088,64,63".
Now both systems boot ok, and I don't have to use MaxBlast. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 2:18 PM > To: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible > > On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > > > Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk? > > Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it. > > Be VERY carefull with these types of utils. If you ever have trouble with > the drive it will be difficult or impossible to recover unless you know > exactly how the utility works and how it effects how Linux and Win. see > the > drive. With both Win. and LILO potentially mucking around in your MBR you > really don't want another utility digging around in there too. > > It's much better to try to get a bios update for your motherboard or a > controller that has a bios built in. For Linux you can specify the > geometry > directly if you must. For Windows, you may need an update from MS to get > it to deal > with large drives (depending on what revision of Windows is being used) > even > with a bios upgrade. > > -- > Ray > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or > ray AT sonictech DOT net > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
