[6054] in linux-scsi channel archive
Large Drives w/aic7895 on Tyan Thunder 2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Garlanger)
Wed Mar 10 17:31:03 1999
From: Mark Garlanger <garlangr@furball.cyberramp.net>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 01:25:24 -0600 (CST)
I having a problem with my new system: Tyan Thunder 2 with
the aic-7895 controller. I have a 8.7G U/W Micropolis drive
that I had been using with a PPro system(and aic-7880) with
no problems, but when I put it on my new system instead of
translating the number of heads/sectors/cylinders to
a reasonable number 255/63/1037 like the old system would
do, it leaves it at 64/32/8296 which causes problems with
lilo. Even though the two systems sees the drive differently,
I am still boot from it without reformating. It is currently
on 2.0.34. I faintly remember being able to specify the
harddrive parameters at the boot prompt and I tried
"sda=255,63,1037" without any luck. In the MB Bios I have
disabled the IDE totally. In the SCSI BIOS I have enabled
the option for >1G Drives but it seems to not affect it.
I am open for any ideas....
Thanks,
Mark
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