Re: Hard drive limit?
- From: Vilmos Soti <vilmos@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 14 Jul 2006 08:51:03 -0700
"***** charles" <shultzjrX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
"Larry Gagnon" <lggagnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.07.14.14.50.07.300991@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:31:15 +0000, ***** charles wrote:
Hi all,
I have a new ASROCK K7VM3 motherboard and a
Maxtor DiamonMax Plus 8 40G ATA/133 HDD
6E040L0 which passes all the diag tests.
When I go to the Maxtor knowledge base they say
to get a new controller card or use their overlay soft
ware. No other solutions are listed.
Problem is that the hd only shows up as a 33G
drive from the bios.
Did you actually go into the BIOS and set the drive to "Auto"? and then
save and reboot?
Yes. Drive still comes up with 33G limit.
charles.....
What about ignoring it? Linux doesn't use the BIOS to access your
disk except at the very beginning at booting. Once I had an old
P133 computer, and the BIOS hanged at POST if the drive settings
were bigger than 8GB. Linux did recognize, partition, and use
the whole drive. Finally I just let the BIOS think it is only
8GB, so everyone was happy. One thing you might want to ensure
though. Ensure that the sector/track and the head count are
correct, and decrease the cylinder count in the BIOS to make it
happy.
Vilmos
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