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

> Jonathan Stuart Lovelace wrote:

>> 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.

> 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?

I've actually sort-of fixed the problem, though not with BL, by telling the
BIOS the drive doesn't exist and then removing the jumper. The other Linux I
have on hand and have been using identifies the drive correctly.

> David

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