Had the same problem with my 30gb Harddrive and my two Year old Computer:
You are probably buying the matrox 80gb Harddrive. There you get a diskette
that does it all for you:
it sets Ez-Bios up (like a patch for your old bios) and Linux should detect
it as 80gb. At the worse you have to reformat the whole Pc and do the same
again.(Linux was never very good at drivers)
Pit A.
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Pit Apps is the man who has the most incompatible Pc for Linux suse but he
got it up und running.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Payne"
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
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