Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>]

BIOS does not and will not have anythign to do with firewire support of any 
kind.  No BIOS supports (yet) booting off of firewire devices.  Linux 
treats them as a sCSI device so you should be fine.

--On Thursday, August 19, 2004 19:15 +0100 Jim Bailey 
<jim@freesolutions.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to find information on whether large external firewire
> drives are effected by the various bios limitations on older hardware.
> Google is not turning up much and I would be appreciative of any pointers
> to docs and articles people may know about.
>
> Peace Jim
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