Re: ide disks > 8.4gb
Hello
> Not true, two weeks ago I temporarily set up slink on WD 13GB. What you need
> to know is the final cylinder. In my case, I partition it with windows first,
> tha box come with windows. So I know the final cylinder, ie 1581. In
> slink-fdisk, I use x then c to set cylinder to 1581.
>
> BTW, I used LBA mode in BIOS.
LBA? Quote from the /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Large-IDE.gz :
If the BIOS converts the 24-bit (c,h,s) to LBA and feeds that to a
controller that understands LBA, then again 7.875 GB is addressable.
Not enough for all disks, but still an improvement.
Will 13GB work in LBA mode ?
read you,
-christian-
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