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Hello Y'all

Thanks for your tips, I just resoved the problem by upgrading my BIOS
version to latest level (Yes it was good money to spend a little more for my
ASUS TX97E...) No need for the EZ-drive anymore. Before upgrading it was
eager to install the 'EZ-BIOS' which causes problems with Linux. After
upgrading it partitioned my disk for me and didn't moan about installing
EZ-BIOS..

Thanks again,

BB

Hello,

I just bought an 8.4 Gig Western Digital Harddisk to not be botheredby lack
of diskspace. Fine, Good.
Now I must, according to the website of WD, must use a utilility called
EZ-drive to use the disk at it' s full capacity. I have very bad experience
of the use of this util in and Linux. The website also tells me this is not
possable. And now what?

Problem to me seems that when I use the disk with LBA mode it 'gets' 1027
cylinders. And a famous BIOS restriction is it can't 'see' diskapace beyond
1024 cilinders. Lilo also tells me this bytheway when I installed it to the
new disk. (I use it already without EZ-drive, works but when I disable my
old harddisk he system doesn't boot anymore...)

Isn't there an other workaround for this? Can't I use 'normal' or 'Large
istead of LBA an make up some other settings for Cylinders, heads and
sectors so the drive will work. Seems to me that when I keep the amount of
cylinders below 1024 things will get better? Or is it not as simple as that?

Anyone can help me with this???

Thanks,

BB

EZ drive is a virus! Why not use your Linux boot and root partitions (from the
bare.i and color.gz files in the bootdisks dir at any distribution site) to
boot up, then use Linux fdisk to create your native and swap partitions?

See  the "large disk mini-howto" at

http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/linux/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk-7.html

Or at MANY other Linux sites for that matter...