Hi: I installed an EIDE 1.2GB hard disk on a client's old 386 machine that had a very old, original--circa 1991--BIOS installed. This thing was so old and cheap that even the CPU chip was soldered to the mobo!! Well, I installed a new Promise EIDE controller board (cost: ~$US35.00) in an ISA slot and did not use the native mobo IDE controller. The new controller board has a chip with its own BIOS extensions. The extensions overcome the allows the 1024 barrier and allows the system to see the entire 1.2GB disk. The controller board BIOS extensions (more reliable than software drivers) load after the regular system BIOS and, joy, the system accessed the entire 1.2GB disk without complaint. Poor old thing is still running. This machine was for running Win 3.1/DOS but the idea should work for Linux too. ---------------------------------------------------------
-----Original Message----- From: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com [<A HREF="mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On">mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On</A> Behalf Of Regular Guy Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 5:51 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] HD Size?
If you try bigger one, most likely it wont see it and if it does, it wont see it that big. I tried RAM (more that what that pc supported) but it didn't see all of it. If things doesn't go well, you may simply end up with a crashed Hard Drive though
---"James (Jim) Hatridge" <hatridge@straubing.baynet.de> wrote:
Hi All!;
I've got an old 486/33, the bios is dated 6/6/91. I have two HDs on
it. I
want to replace the Linux only disk (hdb) with a larger one (now it's 120meg). I was told that I could only use up to a 520meg HD. Is this right? What would happen if I tried a bigger one.
TIA!
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