Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:03:10AM -0400, Mike Miller wrote: > > 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. > > Fortunately, if you do need Disk Manager anyway (due to booting > to DOS etc), Linux is fine with it. > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. > http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 51% > Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. >
True. For that matter, it does recongnize the drive as having a 63 offset to allow for DM -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .