On 4 Apr 2002, jack malone wrote:
I have this old p 120 that has a limit of 8 gig harddrive. I dropped a 20gig drive into the box an the bios set it up as 8 gig. then installed linux on it with no problem. linux sees it as a 20 gig drive an it installs an boots from it fine. But im just wondering if I might run into any problems since the bios only sees it as a 8 gig drive. thanks for the info. I know that linux can overcome some bios limites an this proves it.
Hey Jack: Nope, you should have no problems. Actually, I have the same situation: I have a 10GiB hard drive which the BIOS only recognizes as 8GiB. This IBM drive came with OnTrack software to "fool" the BIOS, but as soon as I found out Linux doesn't need it, I've abandoned it. Like I said, I have no problems, and neither should you. -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0