[mythtv-users] RE: HD, AverTV, & WinTV 250 sale

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Mon May 26 14:06:49 EDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 12:56, Vince Busam wrote:
> Couple of point I found out the hard way.
> 
> 1.  160GB disk NOT supported by my BIOS (137GB max supported) and Maxtor does
> not provide Linux support.  So I'm jumping through hoops to get the drive to
> work, even using only 137GB of the drive.  (Still working on this.)

Yeah... but Linux usually ignores the BIOS anyway when it comes to hard
drive detection.  Have you turned off LBA in your boot config?  What do
fdisk and dmesg report?

	-Ian

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