On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
At 02:59 PM 2/16/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I am going to buy a big (80 GB) hard drive for my machine tonight. The problem is, my machine is 3 yrs old so the bios can only "see" an 8 GB drive. How do i get Linux to recognize that the Drive is actually 80 GB?
As far as I know, Linux cannot correctly deal with a hard drive that your BIOS can't see. It could cause you other hardware problems too.
Nope. I have a 16 GB drive in my linux box that I never even bothered to tell the BIOS about. Linux only uses the BIOS when booting. If you want to boot from the 80 GB drive, you need to make sure that you set up a small boot partition somewhere in the first 8 GB. -- Brian -- Brian Harrington Digital Knowledge Center The Johns Hopkins University brian@sigh.mse.jhu.edu