[Sunhelp] 20 Gig ATA IDE

[Calvin Wells]

It's an ASUS motherboard with a bios Date of December 1999. 
It's hard to believe that the bios would recognize the entire 20 Gigabytes
yet not be able to successfully pass on that information to a supposed up-
to-date operating system. Maybe SUN just don't care about extensive support 
for IDE. I bet if I threw a 20 Gig SCSI drive in the box, it would 
recognize every last block, bit, magnetic particle, and then some. 






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> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:54:55    Calvin Wells wrote:
> >I'm trying to install a 20gig IDE on 
> >Solaris x86 2.7. I can't seem to get 
> >it larger than 8 gigabytes. The bios reports it as
> >lba 20gig. Is 8 gigs the maximum capacity for a partition (slice).
> >Do I need a patch or updated driver.
> >ASUS PIII 500 Mhz with 256 Megs of Ram.
> >One 8 gig harddrive and one 20 Gig harddrive.
> >
> >Right off the back, solaris x86 would not install
> >on this machine until I got the updated configuration assistant
> >disk. So I'm wondering if this limitation is also requires an update.
> >
> >Help?
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> >
> >Calvin Wells
> >wellsc at ezlookin.com
> >
> You have the same problem I have- a bad bios!!! IBM or COMPAQ or 
something stupid right?
> yeah there is nothing you can do about it, will except install solaris on 
a smaller drive.
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