Warning message when booting

[Paul Halliday]

I've installed SuSE Linux on a second computer which I am having problems
with.

1. The graphics card (but that's another thread - See: Mach 64 Card and X)

2. When I turn this computer on, the following message appears after the
SCSI host adapter has been scanned:

"A drive larger than 1Gb has been detected with 64 head/32 sector
partitioning. This drive is not compatible with the 255 head/63 sector
translation which has been enabled on this adapter. Data could be corrupted!
Please check your system setup!"

I have an Adaptec 1542CF host adapter with a 2Gb Micropolis SCSI HDD on unit
0 (DOS Drives C:, D: and E:) and a 1Gb Fujitsu SCSI HDD on unit 1 (Linux
Drives /, /usr, /home and swap). This is the drive causing the problem.

Is this the old 1024 blocks maximum? There are 1034 blocks on the hard drive
and all are used by Linux. Should I re-partition it so that only the blocks
under 1024 are used by Linux?

Thanks in advance, Paul

[Knight of Night]

"Paul Halliday" <pa...@halalfa.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

Check the setting "Extended translation for DOS driver over 1GB" in your SCSI
BIOS settings. Despite the label of the boolean setting, it affects all HD's,
and for Linux, it should be off. If it's on, and you turn it off, you'll have
to start from scratch with the HD, a new partition, a new fresh Linux install,
and if it were me, I'd also low-level SCSI format the drive, just to make sure
all is well.

Just my $0.02 worth of advice. Heed at your own risk, but good luck in solving
your probs.