Re: [TCLUG:12386] Lilo troubles.

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

I've got a 5MB RLL drive you can have...er...nevermind

Eric Hillman wrote:
> 
> > Does the bios in the 486 support the size drive you're using?
> > Some older BIOS' don't like drives bigger than xxx
> >
> 
> For that matter, it wasn't until around the latter days of the 486 that
> BIOSes could succesfully auto-detect drive geometries.  You may need to
> manually enter the geometry (heads, cylinders, etc) into the BIOS as a
> "custom" setting.  Easiest way to do that is figure out how the machines
> that are working properly are registering it, and copy those settings into
> your 486.  If that doesn't work, then, well, I have a couple of 120MB drives
> lying around I could sell you cheap...
> 
> --
> Eric Hillman
> UNIX Sysadmin
> City & County Credit Union
> ehillman@cccu.com
> 
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Adam Maloney
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Internet Exposure, Inc.