🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Andrew Maxwell wrote:

> hamish@rising.com.au (Hamish Moffatt) writes:
> >Sunday November 19 1995 11:55, bgerseko@powerup.com.au wrote:
> 
> > > Note that you will not be able to access the whole drive using a standard
> > > IDE card. I was only able to access the first 1024 cylinders, which is
> > > the standard IDE limit. From memory, that cut me back to 504M, so if
> > > you're non-recognition problem is one of only getting 500 odd Meg from
> > > each drive - that's normal.
> 
> > > If you want to read the whole drive, get yourself a cheap EIDE
> > > controller...
> 
> >An EIDE controller won't help DOS; you need Disk Manager or EzDrive or 
> >whatever, or better yet: LBA mode.
> 
> So basically, if I buy a 1 GIG hdd, Linux will not be able to access all of it...
> So I need to have a EIDE controller. How do I check if I have one already?
> How much do they cost. It would be a real pain to buy a new HDD and realise 
> you can't use all of it...
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Andrew
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> 
I am using a quantum 1 gig byte drive and a 2 years old ISA IDE card with NO
problems at all. All i spent is just $270 for the hard drive.

Why? Just get the disk manager dm.exe from the supplier of 
your hard disk. Make sure the version is at least version 7.x as earlier 
versions won't work with linux as quoted by the disk manager faq.

If you know how to install linux, i don't think you have problems with 
installing disk manager (which resdes in MBR after installation).

Before having disk manager, i can see only 500M in fdisk.

Cheers with your linux box and have fun with your new drive!

Paul