Bad Hard Drive

[Andrej Marjan]

Andrej Marjan wrote:

>Thanks very much, it's just what I need.
>
>I have an extra Seagate 80 with the same jumper, but an easily accessible 
>Maxtor 80 here does not.
>
>Lennart's talk of soft clipping led me to some discussions of a "stroke" 
>parameter that Linux supports on boot. Apparently passing "hdX=stroke" will 
>allow Linux to see the full capacity of a jumpered drive. I'll give it a try 
>when I have a moment to rebuild my firewall, and I'll let everyone know.
>  
>

And the promised update (the old drive was making *really* scary noises, 
so there went half my Sunday):

The jumper let the machine boot, and "hda=stroke" let Linux see all 80GB 
of the hard drive. It works with the stock Debian 2.6.8 kernel; at least 
on some older kernels this option has to be explicitly enabled.
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