Solved: Re: How do I re-activate IDE controller (secondary channel)

[Jani Averbach]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:

>
> take a look at the Large-Disk-HOWTO
>
> www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-11.html#ss11.3
>

I don't know how I did miss this one, because I read (some part of) that
howto...

> As well, there appears to be kernel patches, these appear to have been
> applied to 2.5.3 and above, but maybe not 2.4.x?
>

Yes, with 2.5.47, CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE=y and with 32G jumper, the drive
and bios are working together, and the size is precisely right.

Big Thanks!

BR, Jani

P.S. The drive is Seagate barracuda ATA IV 80G (ST380021A).

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Jani Averbach