On Saturday 04 December 2004 09:30 pm, KevinO wrote:
> Putting a drive too large for the motherboard/BIOS to handle?
This is not a problem for Linux. The IDE (ATA) controller drivers in Linux
talk to the controller chip directly and do not depend on the motherboard
BIOS for hard drive information. Put a 10GB drive on a motherboard BIOS that
only sees 8GB and Linux will run the 10GB, no matter what the BIOS says!
Alan
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