How to change LBA48 addressing capability

Dan Hensley dan at dshensley.com
Sat Jul 12 20:37:52 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 09:16 -0700, Les wrote:
> The second drive is probably is jumpered to be the slave drive, so with
> no master it is not being addressed.

There are no jumpers on either the first or the second drive.  Both are
SATA drives.  Only the 3rd drive is an EIDE drive.

Dan


> 
> Regards,
> Les H
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 22:40 -0600, Dan Hensley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 08:25 +0000, g wrote:
> > > Dan Hensley wrote:
> > > > There are no jumpers on the drive, and I don't think I've ever had one
> > > 
> > > i would believe bill is leading you in right direction to check drivers
> > > between fc6 and f9.
> > > 
> > > maybe even pull down source and contact who wrote them. to lose that much
> > > storage, it would have to be something driver related, and a bug that needs
> > > looking into.
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, strange things have happened.  During my transition from FC6 to
> > F9, I had disconnected a 3rd drive in my system, an EIDE drive.  While
> > it was disconnected I was experiencing the disk problems with my 2nd
> > drive.  So I plugged the 3rd drive back in, and now the 2nd drive is
> > behaving perfectly.  So it seems like this problem is due to some kind
> > of strangeness in the BIOS.  I have an Asus board.
> > 
> > Oh well.  At least it works now.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> 
> 




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