Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 1999 18:05:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | RE: The WHY's (RE: ide drive w/dma ... system crash) |
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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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