Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?

[Mike Miller <mikemillertime@beer.com>]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:03:10AM -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> > On my machine at home I'm running a 486sx33 IBM PS/1 with an old BIOS.
> > For dos, I installed the western digital overlay that allows access, but
> > in Linux, it ran perfect w/o it. According to WD, however, if you ask
> > them, Linux is "broken" because it doesn't use the BIOS. Yeah, and Win95
> > is "fixed". That'll be the day. There's a largedisk howto (or maybe it's
> > a mini-howto). Check it out, I found it to be very helpful. Good luck.
> 
> Fortunately, if you do need Disk Manager anyway (due to booting
> to DOS etc), Linux is fine with it.
> 
> Hamish
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True. For that matter, it does recongnize the drive as having a 63
offset to allow for DM


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