Re: How big is my H/D ?
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:26:13PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Are you telling me that EVERYBODY with IDE disks makes their root < 504mb
> > and at the start of the disk, or has a small /boot? I've never done it,
> > and I've had no problem. I've been running Linux for over 3 years.
>
> Do DOS and your BIOS see the disk as just 500 GB though?
DOS sees all of it. I use LBA mode. It works fine.
> Interestingly, I saw an article today that Win9x users with FAT32 are
> now experiencing the same kinds of problems, especially on *massive*
> hard disks.
The BIOS has new problems with 8Gb+ drives. So does NT 4 until you
apply service pack 4.
Hamish
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