KevinO,
I finally got it to work...I had used 85 (Linux Extended) as the
partition type instead of 83 (Linux). Once I used 83, I was able to
format the drive and use it.
Thanks for your suggestions!
Mark
KevinO wrote:
>>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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