I think that the BIOS limits are only an issue
for the boot drive (because AFAIK LILO uses the
BIOS routines to load the kernel). I have a
couple of >540M drives on a very old MB, which
doesn't recognize them on boot. However, they
work fine under Linux. I just have a little
300M drive I boot from; once the kernel has
control, it detects all the drives in the system.
So Linux should handle really enormous drives
even on older hardware, provided you have a
suitable drive to boot from.
-- Joe
"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
>
> 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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