On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 07:56:33AM +0100, Janez Gradisek wrote:
>
> We're trying to upgrade our AlphaPC 164LX. We put in a new 30 GB IDE disk but
> it was not recognized correctly in the BIOS. The BIOS shows a disk of 8 GB
> only. However, BIOS correctly recognizes the 4.3 GB SCSI disk.

Unless you are booting from that disk then most likely you do not really
care. Once Linux (i.e. a reasonably current kernel) is running it
should see your whole disk anyway. Even if you are booting from it that
is likely not a big deal. Just make sure that no partition is has start
and end on two sides of this "magic 8GB boundary". You may want to
check

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html

Parts are pretty x86 specific but you can find (or "translate")
some info for you as well.

> Questions:
> 1) Is there a limitation in the BIOS that the larges recognizable disk can
> be 8 GB or is there a problem with the hard disk?

You have an old AlphaBIOS. With somewhat more current BIOSes but
still old you worry about 137 GB limit.

> 2) Would it be a solution to update BIOS to Ver. 5.8?

I do not know. Maybe. Somebody else with a definitive answer? I would
likely use SRM anyway (it is available for LX) unless you have an
Adaptec SCSI controller. :-)

   Michal

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