David Raeker-Jordan declaimed: > David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > > > > I recently installed a new Samsung 60 MB HD into a 1998 "vintage" Celeron > > machine as /dev/hdb. The BIOS reports the drive as 30 MB. > > > > I thought that Debian would see the whole drive, but dmesg and fdisk only > > report about 30 or 32 GB. > > > > I then booted Knoppix, and it sees the whole 60 MB. Here is what fdisk on > > Knoppix reports: > > > > What have I done wrong? > > > > Then Christoph Walther came to rescue with the following idea: > > Here's an idea that worked for me. > > Keep the harddisk jumpered to use the _full_ capacity, e.g. 60GB, use a My BIOS hangs at boot unless I use the "compatability" jumper that throttles my new Maxtor 120 GB drive down to 33 GB :-(
(Award BIOS on ASUS P5A motherboard) > 2.4.20-Kernel, and make sure the CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE kernel parameter is > set to yes. Do you know the display title of this option in xconfig (meta-question: is there a doc that maps the xconfig sections & display titles to the config file options? I'm having trouble finding docs on xconfig, doesn't seem to be covered in the 'make' documentation). This isn't set in my 2.4.20 kernel-pkg kernel, I'll certainly add it. > > (You can check the setting with "grep CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE > /boot/config-insert_version_here") > > .config > > # > # IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices > # > CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE=y > > edited by make menuconfig. > > That means, to activate in the kernel the resize-function for big > IDE-Harddisks. > Compile the Kernel and restart your system. > Forget screwdrivers, BIOS-Updates, ATA100-Cards or a new Motherboards Well, the cost of a new motherboard with built-in support for 133 ide bus speed is just than $20 more than the cost of an enhanced IDE controller, but still it's great to learn about a new kernel flag. (admittedly I lucked out to find a motherboard that will take my current DIMMs, and for which I have a compatible unused CPU lying around) > and , at last, avoid the fit of rage.... > That's the easiest and the most intelligent way to get the > full harddisk-capacity! > I tried it successfully on my old (1997) Pentium I, 166MMX-System with > a Western Digital 60GB-Harddisk on Debian 3.0r1 ! > > ___ > > Final Note: I recomplied the kernel and it worked like a charm. Thanks! > > -- > David Raeker-Jordan > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > GnuPG key: 1024D/CD956608 -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
