Future Linux machines?

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Cole Tuininga wrote:

> The problem with this ( and please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
> ) is that unless I'm mistaken, older machines such as these will have
> BIOS's that won't allow large hard drives to be added....

I had a machine a couple years ago where the BIOS refused to recognize
more than 8 GB on a 30 GB drive. On advice from the list, I fiddled around
with fdisk's advanced settings and specified the drive geometry by hand.
After that, linux recognized the entire drive despite the bios
limitations.

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