Re: [LI] IBM HDD

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Sojan James wrote:

> 	We just bought a few IBM drives, Model DTTA-351680
> 16.8 GB. RH5.2 detects only 7GB!
> I don't want to install RH6.0 becuase of some compatibility issues.
> Even after typing hda=16383/16/63 at the boot prompt, only 1023 cylinders
> are being detected.

Look at teh rear of the drive - you have to jumper it to full capacity -
by default it uses compatibility (8 GB) mode.

The drive manual explains it. 

Atul


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