Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:03:30AM -0400, Marty wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> >Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered
> >that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond
> >about 128 gig; the other gets stuck somewhere between 2.5G and 80 G.
>
> I don't know if it will work for all old machines, but when I ran into that
> problem I turned off the backup disk in the BIOS, letting linux find it
> after booting from a smaller disk.
In the first machine, that was the only way I could get it up to 128G, but
it refuses my 200G drive. Even in Linux.
In my second machine, it won't let me turn off the drive in the BIOS
until it's has a crack at autodetecting it. And the autodetection crashes.
-- hendrik
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