Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Lim
- Original Message - From: "CaT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, 03 April, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Big hard drive - not recognised > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wrote: > > This

Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread Jason Lim
- Original Message - From: "CaT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 03 April, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Big hard drive - not recognised > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wro

Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:14 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], mimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but > couldn't find anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives > in the machine - 200 Gig each. > > so the kernel detects it as 137 MB only ATA limitatio

Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread mimo
okay - I just read: "For large IDE disks (over 137 GB): make sure your kernel is 2.4.19/2.5.3 or later." in the Large Disk HOWTO http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-1.html Sorry - this works fine Michael mimo wrote: I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but couldn't find an

Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread CaT
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wrote: > This is on.. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown > unknown GNU/Linux > > Any ideas? I think your kernel is pre-137MB barrier fix (not too sure as to the exact version this

Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread mimo
I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but couldn't find anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives in the machine - 200 Gig each. dmesg: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE co

Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:14 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], mimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but > couldn't find anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives > in the machine - 200 Gig each. > > so the kernel detects it as 137 MB only ATA limitatio

Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread mimo
okay - I just read: "For large IDE disks (over 137 GB): make sure your kernel is 2.4.19/2.5.3 or later." in the Large Disk HOWTO http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-1.html Sorry - this works fine Michael mimo wrote: I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but couldn't find

Re: Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread CaT
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:14:19AM +0100, mimo wrote: > This is on.. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux blue 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown > unknown GNU/Linux > > Any ideas? I think your kernel is pre-137MB barrier fix (not too sure as to the exact version this

Big hard drive - not recognised

2003-04-03 Thread mimo
I have been looking through the kernel mailing list but couldn't find anything on this. I have two big IDE harddrives in the machine - 200 Gig each. dmesg: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE c