Re: 1 Gig WD Problem

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From: W. Paul Mills
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:00

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davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:

>In article <D5Aw4C.75u@news.hawaii.edu>,
>John Samuel Johnson <jsj@Hawaii.Edu> wrote:

>| Then I try fdisk /dev/hdb but I get an error stating that it isn't there.
>| I'm at a loss as to what to do. I need to specify the 1 GIG DOS partition in
>| the LILO configuration during setup. Anyone have any idea as to how this
>| can be accomplished and what my problem is? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

>1 - 2nd disk is probably hdc, not hdb
>2 - it may not be supported, you might need a newer kernel
>3 - because LILO uses the BIOS it may think the drive *is* hdb even
>    when the kernel doesn't. Help for the net on this?
>4 - you can safely ignore the 2nd drive until you get Linux up and
>    working
>5 - in no case would you use Linux fdisk on a drive with DOS only.
>6 - for the big disk see EIDE.TXT about specifying physical vs. BIOS
>    geometry. I think you will need to specify physical, but I
>    haven't got a system like this to try.
7 - OnTrack Systems software was used to install large hard disk!

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