Is this an ide or a scsi drive? can anything see the drive? (as in
windows, dos or bios? there may be a hardware issue... ide interface,
cables, scsi termination, addressing etc.
brian :)
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At 11:51 AM 4/13/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Steve Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>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
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>Westminster Public Library
>Westminster, CO, USA
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