[ale] WD 10.1 hard drive...SUCCESS

[Wandered Inn]

Matthew Brown wrote:
> 
> Would this be averted by using SCSI?

I personally know nothing about SCSI drivers, the info I provided is
based on my experience with IDE.

> -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????

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????