[plug] Western Digital EZ Drive

[David Campbell]

To:             	<plug at linux.org.au>
Subject:        	[plug] Western Digital EZ Drive
From:           	"Craig Harman (ICQ#4069178)" <craig at odyssey.apana.org.au>
Date sent:      	Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:15:17 -0800
Send reply to:  	plug at linux.org.au

> Could someone please help me! I have recently purchased a new 13GB
> Western Digital HDD. My BIOS does not support such a drive and thus
> I have had to use WD's "EZ Drive" software to use the drive. I am
> trying to setup a dual boot system with Win 98 and Linux but when I
> try and install RedHat 5.2 the install program ONLY allows me to
> create a swap drive and tells me that the "/" drive is too big
> (even if I'm stupid about the whole thing and put the drive to 1MB)
> - yet I've set the partition to 1GB! Does anyone know any solutions
> or known  

Sounds almost as bad as the following extract from the parallel port 
mailing list (and the person had the same problem):
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> 	I have a 13.6gig Maxtor IDE hard drive in an H45 (Shuttle EPAT)
> parrallel enclosure.

Boy, that's sick. ;-)
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What the kernel messages and make sure that the kernel does detect 
the drive correctly (size, cylinders, heads and sectors)