Hi Greg, I haven't been in this problem domain for a few years so I could be a little out of date.
The short version is that Linux controls the drives without resorting to the machines BIOS. I think newer versions of Windows do this now too. The older BIOS's supported the largest drives of their day - but of course time moves on. The C/H/S usage has changed expanding the maximum describable capacity. Cheers, J.J. On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 10:51 -0600, Greg King wrote: > Hi list, > > > > I added a 500GB Seagate drive to an older HP PC (circa 2001) as a > second drive. Seagates “seatools” seems to think it is OK and > diagnostics run fine. Whenever I boot Windoze it only sees 137GB. If > I boot Knoppix it sees the whole drive and was able to create a ~500GB > ext3 filesystem. So I create a 500GB ntfs filesystem with > Knoppix/gpartd and boot windoze again but it only sees 137GB. > > > > I contacted HP and was told that my PC chipsets cannot utilize drives > over 120GB. How does Linux get around this limitation? Is HP blowing > smoke where the sun doesn’t shine? > > > > Confused… Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
