[CLUE-Tech] debain and alpha

[Mike Staver]

Interesting.  I can't figure out why my fujitsu wouldn't get
recognized... I'll keep trying, glad to hear somebody had some success
doing this!

Dave Hanson wrote:
> 
> 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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