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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