Hard drive not detected properly by linux

[Joel Hammer]

I have a fairly modern system,

OS Release   : 1.1.2 release 2.4.5-win4lin
   Version   : #3 Wed Jul 4 16:01:48 EDT 2001
   built with: gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release  

I have been using two large maxtor drives, both 80 gigs.
I am trying to install a third 80 gig drive, drive hdd, which differs from
drive 2 (hdb) by only one letter in the model number.

The bios auto detects the drives with no problem, and reports 255 heads 
for my problem drive, hdd. HOWEVER, LINUX INSISTS THERE ARE ONLY 16.

Hard disk 2  : /dev/hdb
   Model     : MAXTOR 6L080J4
   Serial No : 664132556833
   Capacity  : 76340 MB
   Cache     : 1819 KB
   CHS (log) : 9732 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
   CHS (phy) : 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
Hard disk 4  : /dev/hdd
   Model     : MAXTOR 6L080L4
   Serial No : 664209711463
   Capacity  : 11833 MB
   Cache     : 1819 KB
   CHS (log) : 24042 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
   CHS (phy) : 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors              

I have set up the bios identically with both drives. I have tried feeding
boot parameters to the kernel with lilo. I have read and tried to follow the
suggestions (so many) in the Large Disk How to.

Nothing works.

I have run Maxtor's installation software against both drives. It says that
EZ-Bios is not installed on either one. I did try to prepare the drive with
Maxtor software, but, I didn't have a windows or other boot disk as required
by the Maxtor software, so I don't think anything was done to the drive.

Any insight appreciated,

Joel