[plug] Problem with software RAID

[Chris Caston]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 09:27, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> | I just bought an 80gb Seagate but it's currently sitting in a PII with
> | the 32gb clip (bios wouldn't detect it as 80 and it needs flashing but I
> | loathe to do such things)
> 
> I have an 80gb Seagate in an old Cyrix machine with a similar BIOS
> problem.  What you need to do is compile a kernel with
> CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE enabled and put "hda=stroke" (or similar) on
> your kernel command line.  This will convince the disk to reveal its
> full capacity after having lied to the BIOS previously.  No flashing
> involved. :-)
> 
> Cameron.

This was totally unexpected. You rock!
I'll have to try this out. I think this would be particularly useful for
CA if they aren't using it already.

thanks,

Chris

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