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January 26, 2005 4:32:34 AM

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Hi,

I am trying to upgrade my old m/c AMD533MHz, running redhat 7.2.
To use it as a File server, I bought a 300GB Harddrive. But the system
does not recognize the hard disk...

I would like to know how far up the HardDrive evolutionary chain I can
upgrade to ? And where do I start debugging?

Any other recommendations on setting up a file server would definitely
be helpful.

More info.:
- Jumper settings are okay. Also tried to boot it with only 1 HDD, the
new HDD.


Thanks,
Rahul

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January 26, 2005 9:50:29 AM

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:32:34 -0800, xyz_rahul wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to upgrade my old m/c AMD533MHz, running redhat 7.2. To use it
> as a File server, I bought a 300GB Harddrive. But the system does not
> recognize the hard disk...

What do you mean "the system" doesn't recognize the new HDD? Does Linux
boot up? What does your dmesg say? FWIW, Linux doesn't need the bios to
address the drives. You may have to use the smaller, bios recognized HDD
to boot, but Linux should see *both* drives. Perhaps, try booting with a
Linux floppy and then read your dmesg. The larger drive should be there.
January 26, 2005 10:19:16 AM

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wow now xinux doesn't need a bios to boot.......

BIOS UPDATE for the board or make partitions small enough for the old
bios to see them.


"thunder" <thunderTAKEOUT@gti.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:32:34 -0800, xyz_rahul wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to upgrade my old m/c AMD533MHz, running redhat 7.2.
To use it
> > as a File server, I bought a 300GB Harddrive. But the system does
not
> > recognize the hard disk...
>
> What do you mean "the system" doesn't recognize the new HDD? Does
Linux
> boot up? What does your dmesg say? FWIW, Linux doesn't need the
bios to
> address the drives. You may have to use the smaller, bios
recognized HDD
> to boot, but Linux should see *both* drives. Perhaps, try booting
with a
> Linux floppy and then read your dmesg. The larger drive should be
there.
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Anonymous
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January 26, 2005 2:39:34 PM

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What's the motherboard? From that AMD533, it sounds fairly old, so the BIOS
most likely won't support disk over 128GB (maybe even 32GB as limit)....


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"xyz_rahul" <xyz_rahul@hotmail.com> kirjoitti viestissä
news:1106731954.182455.173930@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to upgrade my old m/c AMD533MHz, running redhat 7.2.
> To use it as a File server, I bought a 300GB Harddrive. But the system
> does not recognize the hard disk...
>
> I would like to know how far up the HardDrive evolutionary chain I can
> upgrade to ? And where do I start debugging?
>
> Any other recommendations on setting up a file server would definitely
> be helpful.
>
> More info.:
> - Jumper settings are okay. Also tried to boot it with only 1 HDD, the
> new HDD.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rahul
>
January 26, 2005 4:55:04 PM

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:19:16 -0800, JAD wrote:

> wow now xinux doesn't need a bios to boot.......

I don't believe I ever said it didn't. In fact, booting is the only
reason Linux needs the bios. However, you could boot from a floppy or CD
and avoid this limitation.

> BIOS UPDATE for the board or make partitions small enough for the old bios
> to see them.

If there is a bios update, that would work, but why risk it, if you are
only going to use Linux. I would point out, if the *disk* isn't
recognized, neither are the partitions, no matter what size.

http://www.linux.se/doc/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html

>> What do you mean "the system" doesn't recognize the new HDD? Does
> Linux
>> boot up? What does your dmesg say? FWIW, Linux doesn't need the
> bios to
>> address the drives. You may have to use the smaller, bios
> recognized HDD
>> to boot, but Linux should see *both* drives. Perhaps, try booting
> with a
>> Linux floppy and then read your dmesg. The larger drive should be
> there.
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