AHA1542CF, 2GB HD and Extended Translation in BIOS???

AHA1542CF, 2GB HD and Extended Translation in BIOS???

Post by Aaron D. Turn » Fri, 01 Mar 1996 04:00:00



Hi All!

I've got a situation....  I've got a 2.2GB SCSI disk running off a
1542CF.  There are 4 partitions:

1- Win95 (~1GB)
2-DOS (~500MB)
3-Linux Swap (~50MB)
4-Linux Native (~550MB)

For DOS/Win95 to recognize the entire drive, I enabled the Extended
BIOS support on the 1542CF.  Linux's FDISK was able to create the 2
partitions (though it notes some "warnings").  When I re-boot, the
1542's BIOS gives me a warning about potential disk corruption- the
Win95 and DOS partitions seem to be fine.

Is this going to be a problem for Linux?  Can I just ignore the error
message?  Or is there a work around to this, to remove the errors?  Of
course in a perfect world I could just make the drive Linux only, but
unforetuneately that isn't realistic in my situation.

Thanks!

 
 
 

1. AHA1542CF w/ 2GB HD BIOS question.

Hi All!

I've got a situation....  I've got a 2.2GB SCSI disk running off a
1542CF.  There are 4 partitions:

1- Win95 (~1GB)
2-DOS (~500MB)
3-Linux Swap (~50MB)
4-Linux Native (~550MB)

For DOS/Win95 to recognize the entire drive, I enabled the Extended
BIOS support on the 1542CF.  Linux's FDISK was able to create the 2
partitions (though it notes some "warnings").  When I re-boot, the
1542's BIOS gives me a warning about potential disk corruption- the
Win95 and DOS partitions seem to be fine.

Is this going to be a problem for Linux?  Can I just ignore the error
message?  Or is there a work around to this, to remove the errors?  Of
course in a perfect world I could just make the drive Linux only, but
unforetuneately that isn't realistic in my situation.

Thanks!

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