On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 08:45 -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Some older Pentium III hardware had limits to using 160 GB hard disks for > booting because of the BIOS. And before that, back in the Pentium II days > there were limits of about 40 GB for the boot disk because of the BIOS. > Once either of these are /booted/ into /Linux/ which doesn't use the BIOS, > then the /other/ disks can be bigger. > > So be careful... the 320 GB disk *might* work or might not; the T23 might > be old enough that it really has a 160 GB limit due to the BIOS. > > If you do find that it has that limit, I suppose you could boot it from CD > or USB to get around that, but ... that would kinda suck to have to do. > > -- Chris > I have some experience with this since my two desktop PCs are year 2000 PIII's (with PATA HDDs).
The specific BIOS issue is 48-bit LBA support. The limitation applies to the boot sector, which must reside within the limit. Other than that, I believe a larger HDD is OK. In my files, I have dates as to when BIOSes began shipping with 48-bit LBA support. IIRC, it is around 2002. If you had space in the T23 for a second HDD, you could boot from a small HDD. The second HDD would not have size limits. > -- > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jan 5 - Building a Community Site with Drupal > Feb 2 - Zimbra > Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jan 5 - Building a Community Site with Drupal Feb 2 - Zimbra Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell
