Re: Linux on West Dig 1.6Gb IDE

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From: Adrian Gentle
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 00:00

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Hamish Moffatt (hamish@rising.com.au) wrote:
: 
: I bought one of these on Saturday. I told BIOS the real settings (3148, 16,
: 63), and turned on LBA. Linux (started with 1.2.8, then 1.3.35, then 1.3.52) 
: recognises the disk as (787, 64, 63) automatically, and installed just fine 
: like that. I let FDISK use the wrong parameters, created all my partitions with 
: +xxM sizes, and it worked fine.
: 
: Make sure you have LBA on. My Linux seemed to handle this; I don't know why
: yours wouldn't.

I had a similar experience, the only difference being that LILO
refused to work (when booting, it hung after LI) unless
I passed it the real geometry of the disk, and told it to work 
in `linear' mode.

Adrian.
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Date: 1996/01/18
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