Re: How big is my H/D ?
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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.
Of course. The situation discussed was for non-LBA BIOSs, where the BIOS,
DOS, LILO cannot deal with cylinders >1024.
Bob
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