On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:22, Brian Parish wrote:

> Anyone care to comment?
> 
> cheers
> Brian

In some cases, BIOS might report a particular drive (on older BIOS's)
but linux will figure it out in reality.

I've had several instances where the BIOS on the board recognized the HD
as being under 32gb (or even less), but after loading linux, fdisk (or
whatever you use) tended to figure out that the drive was a particular
geometry and did it's own thing irregardless of what BIOS said - with
very few problems afterwards. BUT, the kernel HAS to be rather "new" - I
used 2.4+ on those systems, and they were Intel based systems as well.
(As if that would matter, but ya never know)

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