Chris Brown wrote: > > I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for > different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that > can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that > you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly > supports the particular disk but once that is done DOS is happy to > ignore the BIOS. Is this the case with Linux? Is it necessary to > pass the disk parameters to the kernel at boot time? > > ********************************************************************* > Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!!
On my machine at home I'm running a 486sx33 IBM PS/1 with an old BIOS. For dos, I installed the western digital overlay that allows access, but in Linux, it ran perfect w/o it. According to WD, however, if you ask them, Linux is "broken" because it doesn't use the BIOS. Yeah, and Win95 is "fixed". That'll be the day. There's a largedisk howto (or maybe it's a mini-howto). Check it out, I found it to be very helpful. Good luck. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .