Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-07,: Re: Detecting BIG ( 17.2 GB ) hard drives ( FIXED ! )

# Re: Detecting BIG ( 17.2 GB ) hard drives ( FIXED ! )

Hugo Varotto (hugov@tr.comm.mot.com)
Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:43:58 -0600

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First of all, thanks to everybody who helped me in detecting correctly my hard
drive. Even though I use and work with Linux for two years, I'm still amazed by
how helpful is the people in this list. Thanks again.

OK, now my hard drive is working ( in its full 17.2 GB mode ), and of course, I
was the guilty. Andries gave me a hint in his last e-mail, to check the jumpers.
It turned out that in the manual Western Digital gives two different settings,
depending on how many pins ( 9 or 10 ) has the hard drive.

Well, it seem sthat I used the setting for 9 pins, when the hard drive has 10 (
my only excuse is that it was 4 AM when I installed it ). Strangely, it was
being detected as an 8 GB with this configuration. I should go back to
elementary to learn how to count.

This is one of this days in which I feel very stupid and happy at the same time
:-)

Thanks to all,

Hugo

BTW: just for completeness, it works fine under 2.2.12-20 ( Red Hat version )
without having to specify linear mode nor stting up a dummy cyl/heads/sectors
configuration uin lilo.conf

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