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[Jonathan Stuart Lovelace <kingjon AT cyberspace.org>]

On Sun, Jul 31 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

(I'm the one with the BIOS in question.)

The question, I thought, was, can Linux address the whole drive when the 
_BIOS_
-- not DOS -- doesn't know about it? Not, can Linux address a drive larger 
than
32GB? I haven't experimented much with the different modes, but with a drive
larger than 32GB the computer won't let me even get to a boot manager, since 
it
gets stuck on the hardware detection stage. (I'll have to try having it skip
that stage sometime.)

Jonathan Lovelace
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