Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Michael R. Batchelor]

>This just ain't so.  I got a 45 Gig IBM drive (the same that this
thread was
>started on) to detect under linux on an Ultra33 controller when the
turned off
>IDE drive detection in the BIOS.  (The machine would hang on when it
tried to
>detect the drive on boot.)

OK, so you've got your BIOS set to something like

ide0/slave = not installed

And that gets you through the BIOS choking when
you boot? And this works OK? Good to know. How
does it work? Pretty well or flaky?

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