> > It is extremely dangerous to try and use hard disks bigger than your
> > PC BIOS supports - partitions will wrap around and overwrite
> > themselves with no warning.
> 
> Even though linux can see beyond?  My motherboard bios can only see upto 8.4
> GB.  My HD is not larger, but linux can apparently see beyond despite the
> bios.

Part of the problem here Jeff is the word "can."  As has been stated,
once your hardware and bios become decoupled, you'll lose data
eventually.

Cheers --- Larry

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