[100464] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RH and drive cylinders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Fri Nov 20 17:36:49 1998
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cc: "Jason Gilstrap" <linux@lafayettehigh.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:18:58 PST."
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:35:19 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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linux@lafayettehigh.org said:
> I know there has been endless conversation on this topic before,
> but would someone please let me know if a drive over 1024 cylinders
> can be used with Red Hat Linux and if so how? I've got a Western
> Digital 6.4G drive with 13328 cylinders. Is this compatible?
> Thanks in advance.
Hi Jason,
First point is that, for whatever reason, you do not have LBA
implemented for this drive. On most systems, you should; that alone
will remove your problem. With LBA in effect you need a drive > 8.0Gb
to exceed the 1024 cylinders issue; my IBM 9.1 Gb drive shows only
1107.
To answer the rest of your question, yes. My 1107 cylinder drive
works great with Linux.
I'd check your drive parameters in your BIOS (usually the first
screen of several) and see what's there. I think you're set to
NORMAL or LARGE, and should be set to LBA.
Best
rickf
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