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RE: Install: Getting beyond 2GB on old IDE



Greg, what year is the BIOS?  Some BIOS' only support 540mb, or 1.6gb, or
others.

On 27-Nov-98 Greg Vence wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I've got an old slug for fs work.  Its got a Maxtor 8GB drive.  When I
> boot the system it hangs unless I use there jumper.
> 
>              cyl,  Heads, Sectors
> Looks like  4092,     16, 63
> Should be  16351,     16, 63
> 
> I thougth using cfdisk to tell it the truth would work but it doesn't
> just giving error that it couldn't read the disk.
> 
> How / when in install do I get the full 8GB to work with.  I'd really
> like to get do it before the dselect.


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