From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hadmut@danisch.de (Hadmut Danisch) Subject: BIOS does not recognize 500GB-disk Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 00:55:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20070703225517.GA22912@danisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from sklave3.rackland.de ([88.198.248.38]:58511 "EHLO sklave3.rackland.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753739AbXGCXDu (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:03:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, just a question: I have an older computer with a ASRock K7VT4A Pro mainboard and a VIA sata controller. A 320GB Seagate SATA disk worked pretty well with that board, but now I replaced it with a 500GB Western Digital SATA, and the BIOS does not recognize that new disk, allthough I've updated the BIOS to the latest available version. The disk is not available under Linux (latest Ubuntu, 2.6.20). I guess it is a BIOS problem, since the disk works in a different, newer machine with a newer mainboard. Is there any way to have Linux to ignore the BIOS and to access that disk even if the BIOS didn't recognize it? regards Hadmut