I think the BIOS is a bigger matter. There seem to be barriers at 540M
(largely overcome), 2.1G (also largely overcome), 8.?G (mostly overcome,
My computer is immune, my wife's suffers this one, though) and 127G.
I haven't encountered any instance where Linux didn't meet the drive's
capabilities, but I haven't tried any larger than 13G
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:
> I'm planning on purchasing another (ide) drive, probably >= 30gig. I've
> not been able to locate a max size for drives. The hardware howto
> basically says 'Large IDE (EIDE) drives work fine with newer kernels.'
> What I'd like to find out is, what is the max drive folks have
> experience using?
>
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> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K...
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