Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?

["Chris Brown" <cbrown@seitz.com>]

     I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for 
different tasks.  These machines have older BIOSs in them that 
can't deal with larger IDE drives.  My experience with DOS is that 
you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly 
supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to 
ignore the BIOS.  Is this the case with Linux?  Is it necessary to 
pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time?





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