Re: [Sheflug] Disk Drive Problem

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi Will,

----- Original Message -----
From: Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk>
>
> It would require some BIOS fiddling. Old BIOSs are pretty bad with big
> drives, Linux *should* be able to use all the drive space as it doesn't go
> via the BIOS for disk I/O.
> You may have to read the info off the drives (if they have a label on
> them) and manually set it in the BIOS.
> As long as you can get the BIOS to recognise the drive at all you should
> be OK as regards the size. Just don't try putting Windows on it.

This is the problem now, the BIOS won't recognise the drives any more. I've
tried inputting the disk data - cylinders, segments etc, but the BIOS just
won't accept the data. As the machines were working OK before I started
trying to install Linux, there must be a way of making them see the drives
again but I don't know how.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK

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