[sclug] Debian - Packages that are not listed?

Alex Butcher lug at assursys.co.uk
Wed Feb 25 20:09:05 UTC 2004


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Scott Rixon wrote:

> cfdisk will see 137GB BIOS reads 8GB! Latest bios....
> 
> The 137 barrier wasn't broken until ATA100 I thought.... So I need to go
> shopping for some kind of ATA controller...

Have you tried passing hdx=cyl,heads,sectors parameters to the kernel? Does
that even still work? It certainly did, back in the good old days.

> Scott

HTH,
Alex.
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