Re: large drives with linux / LBA
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, rob wrote:
> smaller than a 1.6GB these days. Because the motherboard is an old VESA
> thing (as is the IDE controller) I am worried that it's BIOS won't support
> LBA. if this is the case will it be a problem? is there something that i
I have recently installed debian on an old DX2-66 motherboard which also
would not read the LBA and in the DOS environment I had to overcome the
problem with software.
However, Linux did not have any problem identifying the 1.6GB Western
Digital.
Johann
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