From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 15:18:13 +0100 Message-Id: <00123015181300.01334@buffy> Subject: Re: [SLE] Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit On Saturday 30 December 2000 13:46, Sean Akers wrote:
I am running SuSE 6.4 on an old P166 with a BIOS limit of 8.4Gb for HDs. I can't upgrade the BIOS on this machine. I wish to add a new HD to this system and was wondering if Linux can cope with a large drive (I'm thinking 30Gb) ? I am booting off an 8.4 drive at the moment. The new drive will replace a supplementary 2Gb unit so I don't need to be able to boot off the new drive. I can't add a Promise controller due to lack of PCI slots. Speed is not really an issue either, its the space I'm after.
Can this be done ? If so, is there any docs on the subject.
I have a 15 Gig disk running quite happily on a P166 also with a bios that does not know about disks >8.4. Cliff