Steve Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>how do you have linux see a 18.3 gig
>drive. To be specific, it is a western digital.
>Can someone help me install linux on this.
>
>I'm having the most difficult time doing so.
>
>at the cd prompt i type
>linux hd=9965,12,299
Normally SCSI drives are a no-brainer except for the occasional need to put
'linear' in /etc/lilo.conf, although I don't think that's the problem with
your drive. I have 4, 9 & 18Gb SCSI drives in one of my servers and they
work just fine. You might check the SCSI cards BIOS and see if it's doing
some kind of DOS translation for drives > 1Gb.
Is this drive the boot disk or just data? If it's just a data disk, I take
it Linux doesn't recognize it at boot time and you can't run fdisk on
it. If the drive is brand new it may not have a partition table which will
sometimes generate an error message during boot up, but you should still be
able to fdisk the drive.
-Eric
Eric Sisler
Library Computer Technician
Westminster Public Library
Westminster, CO, USA
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