"Glenn C. Lasher, Jr." wrote:
>
> 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
Well, the mb is pretty new, so I suspect the bios is pretty current.
I've got a 10gig in there now. I assume you meant 12.7 gig??
>
> 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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I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
Y2K...
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