large drives and old bioses

[Nathan England]

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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
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Nathan England
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