12GB hard drive on old BIOS

Good news is Linux does not care once it's booted the entire drive is
available, bad news is, you either need to get a newer bios or boot from
floppy/cd-rom.

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 19:57, Alan Dayley wrote:
> I have a 75MHz Pentium (Packard-Bell) on which I am attempting to put a 12GB
> hard drive. I know the drive works because I just removed it fully
> functional from another computer. It is obvious that the BIOS is old and has
> the 8.4GB limit. I don't mind using only 8.4GB on this drive but I can't get
> the darn thing to get past POST. It just reports "Media test failure" so I
> am stuck.
>
> Any hints or pointers?
>
> Alan
>
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