[plug] Problem with software RAID

[Tim Bowden]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 09:37, Chris Caston wrote:
> 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!


My sentiments exactly.  There are a few occasions where I wish I had
know this.  Must try it sometime.  This is one email that will go into
my plug tricks folder.

Thanks Cameron.

Tim Bowden