> A Cautionary tale: > > I bought a pair of IBM 40's for my ASUS A7A266 motherboard. Mandrake 8.1 > would > run weirdly for about a week, then I would have to reinstall it. Windows > 2000 > Pro declared them corrupt right of the bat and wouldn't load at all. After > three months of changing every jumper setting and BIOS option available, I > tried the "32 Meg clip" setting on the hard drives, everything works fine > now. > > I understand drive size is no obstacle for Linux operating systems, > however it > is an obstacle for some PIII motherboard BIOS's which can only handle up > to 32 > Gigs, I don't know if there's a way to go straight to the operating system > without the BIOS being involved, if there is I like to know about it, as I > have 16 Gigs of storage languishing in my machine. > > So beware. Bigger is not always better [insert tasteless joke here]. > > Blair
Just a thought: Have you tried updating Bios? That usually solves problems. I really can't remember a single motherboard with that kind of hw limitation that has been released in last couple of years (although I might be mistaken). Ico
