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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> 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.

I just tried an experiment with BL2 a few weeks ago on a 160GB drive in a 
PPro 180 machine and cfdisk showed 132 (or was it 138?) GB of the drive 
space. I didn't try to partition or format it, but it seemed to register 
as much of the disk as it could--despite BIOS limitations. On the FREESCO 
forums--FREESCO using a 2.0.x kernel--the consensus is that drives up to 
120GB can be used despite BIOS limitations. M$ stuff, on the other hand, 
seems bound by BIOS settings.

James