Using/installing 2.6.x kernel with Dynamic Drive Overlay

[Jamon Camisso]

I'll try a few things and see how it goes. Thanks for the pointers 
though (note that Knoppix 3.2 works, must be a 2.4 kernel).

Jamon Camisso

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:16:43PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
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>>The BIOS supports my other 80gb Seagate without any interference on the 
>>part of a DDO. As to the 40gb Seagate ST340016A, upon powering off the 
>>system the drive goes back to 32gb. Perhaps I'll try the clip (software) 
>>option as it sounds like a good one.
>>
>>"Make a /boot partition at the start of the disk, of say 128M or so."
>>Does this mean that I should not install grub/lilo to MBR?
>>
>>Note: I've tried the drive on a Silicon Image RAID card and though it is 
>>detected and boots, it is still only recognized as a 32gb drive. 
>>Methinks that perhaps the drive itself is the problem. Note also that I 
>>purchased it when 40gb had just entered the market. I'm not sure of the 
>>manufacturer, and am unsure as to whether a firmware upgrade is 
>>available for the drive since Seagate offers none. Would an firmware 
>>upgrade help?
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>If the drive is stuck at 32G on a system that supports bigger, then
>someone either jumpered it for 32G or ran a utility to set it's default
>on power up to 32G.  Getting the utility and running it should be able
>to set it back to normal.  Some of those utilities are even available
>for linux.
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>Have a look at: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html
>especially 11.5.
>
>Lennart Sorensen
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