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

[Andreas Siegert]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:12:01PM +0200, 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.

SuSE 6.4 which should have 2.2.14.
I have been using an 18G disk before without any special tweaks.

> >> Right now I am trying with CHS=58128,16,63, hoping it will work out nicely. 

Nope, did not work, lilo stopped at LI :-(

cheers
afx
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