On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > * First, how should I setup that under Linux? It's a Maxtor > one. Both windows and linux detect it as 33GB. Which drivers > should be loaded, ...?
Some old award bios (old as in intel 440LX era and earlier) would hang the boot process if they saw a drive larger than 32GB, which is why all large drives have an option to clip to 32GB. If your friend's computer does not have this problem, the best option is to unclip the drive. The clipping can be done in hardware (a configuration jumper) or in software (maxtor's drive utility). The unclipping is done similarly. If they need the clipping, because they have the buggy BIOS, and no update from the manufacturer, then linux can do unclipping automatically (CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE option at compile time), I don't know about windows, but I guess there are similar solutions. > * I'm going to use the hard through a IDE to Firewire > converter, as a SCSI device. I guess there would be fewer > problems that time. It's important to make sure that the converter supports LBA48, otherwise you can't use more than 128GB of the disk. -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
