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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.nrt>]

I have an HP Pavilion PC with an 80 Gb HDD so I I tested BL2 on it.
The ramdisk version boots fine and recognizes the HDD but does not
report its size when booting. (c)fdisk shows it as an 80 Gb drive
and correctly reports that there is one vfat (FreeDOS) partition
and that there are three ext2 (Linux) partitions.  BL2 has no
proble mounting a ~ 40 Gb partition and couls even execute a
statically-linked program tha was there.
Ken 
artwick

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:43:29PM -0500, Jason Chall wrote:
> Regarding how the SSD is accessed, according to the manual "The PCM-4862
> features an internal Flash/ROM disk drive. This drive emulates a floppy disk
> drive by using solid-state memory
> chips". This does not seem to be true though since under DOS this drive
> shows up under fdisk, which floppies don't. And if it is acting as a floppy
> it doesn't seem like DOS would be able to access any more than 1.4 MB but it
> sees all 8 MB of the SSD. Under linux the SSD does not show up under fdisk.
> I tried mounting the seconding floppy disk a variety of ways but this did
> not seem to work. Does BL even support FAT? Also is the ramdisk hda?
> 
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> Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 Floppy Version, Crashes when HD is attached
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> 
> Jason Chall wrote:
> >
> > I am running the floppy disk version of BL3
> > Everything works fine with just the floppy drive attached
> > but when I attach the Hard Disk, BL crashes on boot
> > Note, hard drive is large, 80 GB, and BIOS only sees it
> > as 8 GB.
> 
> BasicLinux is designed for old hardware, so it is not
> surprising that it is tripped up by something fairly
> new, like your HD.
> 
> > anyone know if I'll be able to see the whole 80GB once
> > I get BL running?
> 
> Maybe not.  I suspect the 2.2.16 kernel is unprepared
> for HDs that large.
> 
> > Also when I do boot without HD, BL does not seem to
> > recognize Solid State Disk though
> 
> How does the Solid State Disk connect to the system?
> IDE?  USB?  PCMCIA?  If it's IDE, BL3 should autodetect
> it (but you will need to mount it yourself).  If it's
> PCMCIA, you will need to add a module and edit the PCMCIA
> config file.  If it's USB, you are out of luck -- BL3 has
> no USB capability.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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