ADLO and older hard disk support
Richard Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com
Mon May 12 17:37:00 CEST 2003
ADLO appears to choke on older harddrives.
We have a box of bunch of < 512 Meg harddrives that we use for systems
where we want a little more space than a 8 or 32 Meg CF to develop on.
I wanted to use one to boot a different Linux install than the one I'm
booting now.
I tried about 6 or 7 different drives from different Mfgs and they all
had a similar issue. ADLO would find the drive get a PCHS value and
what sometimes looked like a resonable LCHS values. But the drive size
would be 0 Meg. Then the int13 handler would barf about things being
out of range. Usually 2 out of the 3 CHS values reported by int13 would
be zero.
Perhpas a LBA problem? Is the current HD stuff only good for say like
drives that can do LBA32? Anyone else ran into this?
This is mostly just a FYI for the archives as I'll just go cobble up
another newer drive and move on.
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Richard A. Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com
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