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SubjectRE: The WHY's (RE: ide drive w/dma ... system crash)
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Andre M. Hedrick wrote:
> > So there needs to be good probing routines then that ignore BIOS totally
> > since you really cant depend on it getting it right
> The routines are present, but the onboard BIOS still gets first crack at
> defining hda/hdb's geometry. You bring to the forefront an issue plaguing
> me that BIOS geometries need to be verified and not taken for truth.

Ok BIOS gets hda/hdb and IDE driver probes everything after that.
Is there any reason you cant just probe hda/hdb too? What breaks?

> > So what do you do with old AWARD bios without AUTO
> Can you not get an upgrade?

Its BIOS from pre-flash-rom days. No way to upgrade.

> You may need to use the offboard option in conjunction to calling
> pci=reverse to force the onboard hwif's to be scanned last.

Ahh more command line switches B)

Well i just overrode it with 'append hdc=19650,16,63' but im thinking of
the case where a novice is trying to install redhat 5.2 on his shiny new
22gb ide drive and cant understand why it doesnt see more than 8gb.

-Dan


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