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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Have you tried (with the jumper removed, that you added originally) not 
telling BIOS anything, which I think causes it to not find the drive at 
all, then looking at the drive with linux, including BL3?  Does BL not 
fdisk work where Redhat does, or did you just not try it yet?

Putting the jumper on probably causes all OSes to identify the drive as 
only 32GB, because the hardware says that is what is is now.

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Jonathan Stuart Lovelace wrote:

> > Jonathan Stuart Lovelace wrote:
>
> > > On Sun, Jul 31 2005, James Miller wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Will linux (BL) ignore the BIOS here (is the kernel compiled to do so) and
> > > > > find the whole drive?
> > > >
> > > > Yes. Kernels up to the 2.2.x range can address up to 138 GB, so he should
> > > > be fine.
>
> > I just read on the Linux-Kernel mailing list archive,
> > <http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0011.1/0056.html>
> > and it seems to say that 2.2.16 does _not_ permit you to access
> > 32GB if your BIOS/IDE controller cannot. However, the author
> > of this post provided a patch to fix this. Do you want to build
> > your own kernel with this patch or should I?
>
> I've actually sort-of fixed the problem, though not with BL, by telling the
> BIOS the drive doesn't exist and then removing the jumper. The other Linux I
> have on hand and have been using identifies the drive correctly.
>
> > David
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