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The Wednesday 2007-04-04 at 21:06 -0500, dwain wrote:
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> The
> reason I'm using 40GB drives is that that's all the drive my BIOS on
> this old machine will handle.
Fidlesticks! :-p
I have an old 80386SX machine, which doesn't recognise any disk (you have
to type the head, sector, track numbers into the bios setup), and which
doesn't accept more than 512 MB, but linux happily uses an 8 GB disk on
it. I believe the theoretical limit was 2 GB at the time, 512MB per
partition, I think.
I have also a pentium 1 machine, with an old bios, using also much larger
disks than it was originally designed for. I forgot the numbers and I'm
not going to power it up now, so I will not cite them.
Ah! And my current machine also doesn't recognise my 160 GB nor my 320 GB
hardisks - however, that's what Linux uses and boots from. Even Windows-Me
works (provided I don't try to partition it in windows!)
Who cares about the BIOS? This is Linux!
:-P
seriously, once Linux is running, most of those limitations do not exist,
the bios is not used. You may have problems during booting, however.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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