Re: Hard disk forces BIOS upgrade - but can I use it safely before upgrading ?
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Jim B wrote:
jamesb >The Award BIOS on my motherboard (Asus) also only saw 8.4 GB of my Maxtor
jamesb >DiamondMax 17.2 GB disk. Fortunately, LILO didn't care.
i had a machine recently stop detecting disk drives alltogether, but
still! the kernel still was able to detect and configure the drives, DOS
appears to rely on the bios as fdisk reported no fixed disks present
linux rules :)
nate
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