Re: Big IDE HD unclipping and IBM drive

Andre Hedrick
2000-12-08T22:02:59Z

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>
> I have an IBM drive, DTLA-307075 (75GB), and a bios that hangs with
> large disks. I use a jumper to clip it to 32GB size, so the bios can
> boot into linux. The problem is that WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX returns 32GB,
> and not the true size, and even trying to set the correct size with
> WIN_SET_MAX fails. Is there a way to use this combination (Bios, HD,
> Linux)?

Yep you have to use code/patches that are not in the standard kernel.
Which kernel are you using?

Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
EVP Linux Development, TRG
Linux ATA Development