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Article #58582Re: WD and Linux??
From: -*Binh*-
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00
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> Could someone please tell me how to get linux to work with a > western digital 1Gb HDD and an old bios. > > Help PLEASE? what u mean old bios?...you mean bios that cant support hard drive greater than 1024 cylinders? well i remember back a few years ago when i have that smae sort of problems and here is what i did back then use your linux boot disk boot into linux...use linux fdisk and change the physical infor on your hard drive and save it.. what u do is half the cylinders and double the head and that will give u the same amount of hard disk space.. so if you hard dirve is 2048 cylinder and 16 heads you would change to 1024 cylinders and 32 heads. ok hope that help ..make sure bakup your dos partition if anything goes wrong..
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