[plug] Large drive supprt on older machines [was] Problem with software RAID

[Chris Caston]

A more appropriate subject. Sorry.

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 08:50, 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,
> 
> I'm just trying this out now but am having a little trouble finding the
> options to do the above. Should it be available when I do make
> menuconfig ?
> 
> I'm having some trouble finding these options.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
> > Cameron.
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