[CLUE-Tech] debain and alpha

[Dave Hanson]

I replaced one of the 1 Gig drives in my Alpha with a 4.3 Gig Barracuda. The 
BIOS didn't have any problem recognizing the full drive. I plan to replace 
the other 1 Gig with another 4.3 Gig, or a 9 Gig if the BIOS will accept it.

For some reason, Digital lists the maximum internal drive storage as 6.4 
Gig:

http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/a255series.html

Dave


>Message: 17
>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:20:08 -0700
>From: Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com>
>To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] debain and alpha
>Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>
>Yeah, I'm trying to use that debian page to install linux on this bad
>boy alpha 255, but I couldn't take the loud scsi hard sound anymore from
>the barracuda that was in there, so I tried replacing it with a Fujitsu
>4.5 gig scsi drive that I had laying around, and have everything
>connected correctly, but the bios doesn't see the drive... I have tried
>scsi id's of 0, 1, 2, and 3 with no success.  Does anyone know if the
>bios has a maximum drive size limit? Worse comes to worse, I could
>always put the old one back in, but seriously, that noise gets to me big
>time... if I was putting this thing in a closet somewhere, it wouldn't
>be a problem, but sitting on my desktop, I gotta have some quiet!


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