Absolutely do NOT use MaxDrive with Linux I have helped three people who have had
conflict troubles with MaxDrive and Linux, and a weak chipset doesn't help the
prospects at all.
You do not need it, nor does your BIOS need to see the rest of your drive
Just make sure you get a 10-20M /boot partition into that first area--the first 1024
cylinders--the part your BIOS can see.
Then Loadlin or LILO will work
Once you get to /boot, Linux will be able to see the rest of your drive, and your
PCChips conceived Chipset can do whatever it wants.
The quality of the Chipsets from PCChips has improved. Maybe someday soon the
quality of the boards will as well.
If there are any BIOS patches (and there are for many of the boards and chipsets),
they can be found at http://www.pcchips.com
Civileme
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Wayne....I believe at the very worst you'll lose 4.2 gigs of storage
> space.
>
> Alan
>
> Wayne Stout wrote:
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I just bought a 13.6 gig Maxtor hard drivefor my home pc, and much to my
> > chagrin, I discovered that my motherboard BIOS will only support 8.4 gig. I've
> > done some digging looking for a BIOS patch, but can't find anything. My mobo is
> > made by Top Gun, has the TXPro UDMA 33 IDE support.
> >
> > My main question is this. Can I install Linux while using this MaxDrive
> > software? Will I need to use loadlin instead of lilo? Or am I looking at
> > replacing the board? (Something I *really* don't want to do) Would anyone
> > happen to know about a site that might have a BIOS patch for this board? (It
> > uses an AMI bios)
> >
> > Thanks again for all your help.
> >
> > Wayne
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