large drives and old bioses

[Kyle Faber]

One of my machines at home (my file server) is a pure linux installation on a 
PentPro 200 with 64ram.  Same problem with the Bios, hda is a 2gig drive that 
came with the system.  hdb is a IBM120gb drive I picked up at frys.  Set the 
BIOS to none, boot from the 2gigger and I am in business.  The only 
difference it sounds like in our setups is that my kernel et al. resides on a 
"BIOS visible" physical disk, and the 120gb is mounted "/storage".  Linux 
(RH7.2/2.4.7-10stock) is handling the drive great, and everyone is the house 
has a place to store their crap.  This setup has been working great ever 
since I discovered Linux could handle drives that big on its own (maybe 
6-8months) and I haven't had any issues at all, that I can remember.  Now I 
just wish I had gig-E for my network, so I could stream the divx files 
instead of DLing them.  


=)
Kyle Faber
EMR Data Services
Pro-Linux Phx ISP

On Monday 26 August 2002 08:31 am, Nathan England wrote:
> Over the weekend my best friend bought a 60gb hdd and we installed it in
> his computer. His bios was too old to see the drive, and it wouldn't allow
> us to flash it, so we were limited in what we could do.
>
> We ended up with a 4gb drive as hda and put the 60 as hdc. He might need
> windows in the future, so we put windows on the 4 gb, then setup loadlin to
> boot to the 60gb with suse 8.0.
>
> We set the 60 gb to <none> in his bios os it wouldn't see it. Which caused
> some minor nightmares at first, but after we got loadlin setup and a dos
> batch file that acts like a lilo menu it all is working greatly.
>
> Has anyone else hidden a drive like this and successfully used it? Did you
> have any problems that you relate to hiding the drive like that?
>
> nathan