At 02:59 PM 2/16/2001 -0700, you wrote:
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?
As far as I know, Linux cannot correctly deal with a hard drive that your BIOS can't see. It could cause you other hardware problems too.
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
At 02:59 PM 2/16/2001 -0700, you wrote:
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?
As far as I know, Linux cannot correctly deal with a hard drive that your BIOS can't see. It could cause you other hardware problems too.
Nope. I have a 16 GB drive in my linux box that I never even bothered to tell the BIOS about. Linux only uses the BIOS when booting. If you want to boot from the 80 GB drive, you need to make sure that you set up a small boot partition somewhere in the first 8 GB. -- Brian -- Brian Harrington Digital Knowledge Center The Johns Hopkins University brian@sigh.mse.jhu.edu
Not my experience here. I bought a 45GB drive, which my BIOS doesn't care for, but Linux has no issue with it. The only caveat, I had to stick an old 2GB drive in the machine to use as a bootloader. Or you could boot from floppy ;^) Stew Benedict On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
At 02:59 PM 2/16/2001 -0700, you wrote:
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?
As far as I know, Linux cannot correctly deal with a hard drive that your BIOS can't see. It could cause you other hardware problems too.
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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On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:14:49PM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
As far as I know, Linux cannot correctly deal with a hard drive that your BIOS can't see. It could cause you other hardware problems too.
Actually, Linux only uses the BIOS during bootup. An 80 gig drive should work. If not then the original poster will have to add an option to his lilo.conf. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!"
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