Alan Dayley wrote:
> 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
That and... if I'd seen the responses and that the problem was solved, I
wouldn't have posted an answer.
Thanks,
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