[linux-help] Re: Hard Drive Upgrade

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:53:31PM -0500, Dale W Hodge wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Steven Saner
> >
> > Actually, Linux doesn't care about that limitation because it handles
> > disk I/O, rather than the BIOS. The only thing you need to do is make
> > sure that the boot partition is in the first 540MB of the hard drive
> > so it will boot (which requires the BIOS). Once booted, there should
> > be no problem (or so that has been my experience with at least a 1.2GB
> > drive).
> >
> On one of my Linux boxes I have a 40G drive that the bios doesn't even see. 
> Once
> Linux boots off the smaller drive it recognizes the that the larger drive is
> installed and works perfectly. Some large drives can work as boot drives even 
> if
> the bios doesn't recognize it, but others don't.  Your best bet is to read the
> large disc howto at 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO
> 
> --dwh
> 
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Don't you also run into an issue sometimes where older IDE controllers
can't deal with drives over a certain size, in which case you can't
use anything bigger than that? Seems to me I remember an 8-9 GB limit
for some controllers.

Steve

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