[ale] WD 10.1 hard drive...SUCCESS

[Matthew Brown]

Would this be averted by using SCSI?
-Matt
-----Original Message-----
 From: Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com>
To: Matthew Brown <matthew.brown at cordata.net>
Cc: ALE <ale at ale.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] WD 10.1 hard drive...SUCCESS


>Matthew Brown wrote:
>> 
>> Is all this to say that we can, in fact, purchase those honkin' drives
>> without fear?
>> 
>> -Matt
>
>I would suggest that you read the Large-Disk mini howto and
>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt and decide for yourself.  I will
>provide my view of what I got from these docs, but again, read the docs.
>
>As I understand it you can have various problems with the larger
>drives.  It can be a bios issue if your bios doesn't recognise the
>drive.  It can be a Linux issue if you're running an older kernel,
>(2.0.34pre14 or 2.1.90 or newer).  Basically what I get out of it is
>that by doing SOME COMBINATION (might be just one or none as well) of
>the following you can get your machine to recognize the larger drives:
>
>1. update your kernel
>2. update your bios
>3. manually set the drive parameters in your bios
>4. manually set the drive parameters when partitioning (cfdisk OR fdisk)
>5. use the EZ drive software that is often provided by the drive
>manufacture.  I've received versions of this software from Conner,
>Seagate and Western Digital.  Each version received would only work with
>drives made by the manufacturer the software came with.  That is, if it
>came with a Western Digital drive, it would only work with a WD drive.
>
>This is my personal view based on my own research. YMMV or YMMS, read
>the docs. :)
>
>--
>Until later: Geoffrey esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
>
>You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????