[ltp] IBM DJSA-230 (30GB) in TP600E

[Jay Lyerly]

Older kernels may need help recognizing large disks but they should work
if you specify CHS at the lilo prompt.  This is a limitation of the bios
not reporting the disk size correctly.  You could even use large disks
on a machine whose bios didn't support more than 540 meg drives.  If
2.2.14 fixed your problem, its likely that the bios detection was
improved.  However, larger disks have been supported for a long time at
the OS level.  (Lilo has some problems.)

One cavaet... there is a problem with very large disks that are becoming
common now.  The cut of is somewhere in the 35 gig range.  There is a
large disk patch that we should see become more mainstream as this
drives become commonplace.

jay


"K. Holcomb" wrote:
> 
> >> just received an IBM DJSA-230, a nice 30GB Disk. But so far I was not really
> >> successfull installing Linux and (YUCK!) win98 on it.
> >> The BIOS gives me the usual 8GB (CHS like 16xx,16,63)
> 
>       Which Linux?  A variety of distributions may or may not work, but
>       apparently kernels below 2.2.14 definitely do *not* work, even with
>       the latest BIOS, for disks larger than 8G.
> >>
> >> Right now I am trying with CHS=58128,16,63, hoping it will work out nicely.
> >> But I'd be very happy if I could get a hint from someone who has it working
> >> already.
> >>
>       I haven't tried a 30G but it didn't work for a 10G until I went to
>       2.2.14 (Red Hat 6.2 in my case).
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