[TriLUG] Any problems with a 160 GB IDE disk?

[David Rasch]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:37:29PM -0400, "Aaron S. Joyner" <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> Just to cover the obvious for this thread... have you checked for BIOS 
> updates from the manufacturer?  Also, I haven't dealt directly with this 
> problem in recent memory (so don't consider me authoritative at all), 
> but from my previous experience what the BIOS sees is largely 
> irrelevant.  As long as the BIOS sees the drive enough to load the boot 
> loader, and the boot-loader can access all of it's files (inside the 
> first 1024 sectors in the case of LILO), once Linux comes up it will 
> describe the drive not limited by the BIOS's version of the addressing.  
> But then again, maybe I'm just getting old and my memory is froggie.

One instance in my experience is to the contrary.  My PII 400 system
will not load the boot loader off my 60GB drive.  It sits there and
dumbly refuses to do anything whatsoever :).  I've used both a smaller
drive, and a boot disk with grub to solve this issue.  Grub sees the
drive just fine, but the bios won't load the boot loader from the drive
(tried both grub and lilo).

David