I wouldn't have bothered with the extra expense of the card just make sure there is a /boot partition within the first 32gig or so
The linux kernel is perfectly ok with ide disks it just ignores that the bios has to say on the matter My laptop has a 12gb disk in it bios only supports 8gb disks. But it makes no difference. On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jon Biddell wrote: > At 14:16 29/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: > >Hi all, > >I am looking at putting RH7.2 on the following machine and wondered if > >anyone had heard anything good or bad about the system. I would be upgrading > >to 512MB RAM and a 40GB 0r 60GB HDD. > > Simon, > > The spec seems to look fine - the only concern is the hard drive size - has > the motherboard got an integrated ATA100 controller ? > > The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb > Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise > them as 32Gb.... An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although they > are now hde and hdf...:-( > > Jon > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
