[COMP] Re: Maxtor Hard Drive Problems
- From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:11:34 -0500
> But will this make any difference since the BIOS will
> still only see the first 33GB of the drive?
> No matter which mode (LBA, LARGE, AUTO) I use in the
> BIOS settings to access the drive, the largest it will
> see is 33512MB.
Not necessarily. Linux doesn't use the BIOS for much there. (And win2k
shouldn't either, but you never know, and you can't exactly *fix*
anything, eh?)
> I take it motherboard manufacturers do not quote
> how large a disk their BIOS will recognise for a
> particular board, yes?
Any recent bios revivision should handle it.
John
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