Seth, Spend some of that phat cash your making and buy a PCI IDE controller and then disable the onboard controller...and problem solved. It's what I would do. Regards, * Seth Payne (SPayne@Legato.com) [010216 13:59]: =>Hello! => =>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? => => => =>Seth R. Payne =>Education Marketing =>Legato Systems www.legato.com =>801.437.8180 => "World Domination. Fast." =>-- Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux Operating System => => => =>-- =>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com =>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com =>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq => Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.