25 Sep
2003
25 Sep
'03
19:58
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 21:31, Mike wrote:
Just a note. I have an older machine such as yours. The latest bios update was so that the machine would recognize drives up to 8 gig. Now, that being said, linux doesn't care too much about the bios. Right now I've got a 30gig, and a 20 gig installed in that machine. Linux runs just fine. It sees the both drives entirely, and they work just fine. DMA isn't there, but heck, it's only a dual Ppro machine. ;-))
You will find that there are lots of little things like this that linux does that Windows won't.
Actually, if you just add a large disc (one that's too large for bios), and NOT have the bios detect it, windows will be able to see it too. Linux, as can be expected, too... :-) Hans