Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:50:25 -0800, ye416@victoria.tc.ca wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only
>notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in
>it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the
>huge hard drives that are on the market.
>
> Specifically,
>
> 1) Will the kernel be able to see a 20-100 GB drive if the BIOS
> can't see it ? Last time I checked, the kernel wasn't
> bothered by the BIOS's limitations, but last time I checked,
> a ten GB drive was astronomically huge.
>From what I remember, in that era there was a 2 gig hard limit due to
the BIOS. The work around was to partition at =< 2g. It may happen
that you need to create the partitions on another machine, but once done
all the BIOS will see is many discs. As far as I know, unless you can
flash-update the BIOS, you're probably stuck with those limits.
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Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means--Nash
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