Re: [cobalt-developers] 300 GB Maxtor HDD in Qube 3

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 cobalt@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get a 300 GB Maxtor HD working in a Qube 3. The HD has
> already been lowlevel formated (which took some days). The kernel
> freezes in the boot process when it is trying to detect the
> partitions on the drive (please see below screenshot). The system has
> cmos romrev 2.9.36 and the kernel is 2.4.19C7_III.
>
> Can someone give me hint on how to change the kernel commandline so I can
> try to change the parameters for hdc (like nodma, fixed geometry)?
>
> There seems to be no lilo on the machine I don't have a clue how to tell
> the kernel what to do but the machine has to have the setting somewhere as you
> can go:
> [root 2.4]# cat /proc/cmdline
> console=ttyS0,115200 ip=off
> and there are some parameters.
>
> Any other experience in getting large disk up and running in Qube 3 are
> much appreciated too.

Another thought, put the disk on a Linux PC and make partitions,
then format them...



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