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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

He says he has installed linux on there (Redhat, he already has Bl3 on 
another drive) and from what I understand, they are both finding only 
32GB.  He had to go through some shenanigans and tell BIOS it was only 
32GB, and set jumpers.  Should he undo this?

DFI is going to send him a BIOS upgrade because the four at their site for 
this motherboard did not fix this problem.  He is quite resourceful.

Is there a different kernel he should try that will ignore BIOS, or is 
this now a hardware problem (setting the jumpers may have caused the 
problem?).

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, James Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Will linux (BL) ignore the BIOS here (is the kernel compiled to do so) and
> > find the whole drive?
>
> Yes. Kernels up to the 2.2.x range can address up to 138 GB, so he should
> be fine. To use Windows or the like, he'd have to use the drive overlay
> software that likely came on a CD along with the HD. But under Linux, he
> won't need that.
>
> James
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