21 Nov
2001
21 Nov
'01
10:19 a.m.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Edenyard wrote:
Can anyone set me straight on the situation regarding large HDs and (early) BIOS limitations? I seem to remember a limit of 8.4Gb for 486 and early 586 BIOSes, but does that mean that HDs > 8.4Gb won't work at all on these motherboards, or will the space above 8.4Gb just be unreachable?
Depends if you want to boot off the disk or not. I found I was unable to boot from my 34gb disk, but that I could mount it and use it just fine in Linux after booting from another disk.
Andrew.
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