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

> > > > 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.
>
> I just read on the Linux-Kernel mailing list archive,
> <http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0011.1/0056.html>
> and it seems to say that 2.2.16 does _not_ permit you to access
> 32GB if your BIOS/IDE controller cannot. However, the author
> of this post provided a patch to fix this. Do you want to build
> your own kernel with this patch or should I?


Jonathan thinks he has solved his problem.  First he wrote the company 
that bought out AWARD and they asked for his BIOS number in order to make 
him a custom upgrade, then offered him a standard one for $69.95.  He 
pointed out that this was twice what the hard drive cost ($30 after 
rebates) so they offered the upgrade for $39.95.  DFI's four upgrades were 
not relevant.  He eventually told BIOS that there was no primary slave 
hard drive, instead of letting it find the 32GB to which he had jumpered 
it, and Redhat's installation program was able to recognize 80GB of the 
drive which BIOS did not find at all.

I will ask him whether the BL3 kernel could also find 80GB.

Apparently Best Buy no longer sells anything smaller than this.  And a 2GB 
from ebay would be about $10 with shipping and have no guarantees.

He plans to do a lot of compiling now that he no longer has to worry about 
space.  700MB was not enough before.

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