[clue-tech] Help with 2 hard drives on same IDE

[Angelo Bertolli]

Roy J. Tellason wrote:

>On Thursday 22 September 2005 11:28 am, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
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>>Ever since I ran the diagnostic tools, the drive has been incorrectly
>>detected in the BIOS.  No matter what I put in or try to autodetect, it
>>comes up to no more than 33.8 GB.  The diagnostic tools even show this
>>as 33.8 GB, but for some reason are still smart enough to treat it as a
>>160 GB hard drive.  (By the way, with the BIOS settings, even Linux only
>>saw the drive as 33.8 GB.)
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>Linux doesn't use the BIOS beyond the initial boot sequence.  If linux is only 
>seeing that much drive then that's what the drive is telling linux is 
>there...
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You were right about that.  Somehow when I was playing with the 
diagnostic tools, I had unknowingly set it to say it's a different 
size.  I'm not sure what the benefit of this is, but it certainly wasn't 
clear when I was messing around with it.  Now it's reporting as 160 GB 
to both the BIOS and Linux just fine.

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