From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I recently had the displeasure of finding out all about limits with disk
>size. I purchased a 10.1GB IDE disk. Here's the lowdown, gleaned from
> [ ... deleted material ...]
>I was never able to get my PC (a 3 year old pentium) to access more than
>8.
On Mon, 22 Mar, 1999 à 06:13:13PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Jeff,
>
[...]
> I was never able to get my PC (a 3 year old pentium) to access more than
> 8.4GB. Even
> that was only after flashing my ROM to the latest version. I could access the
> entire
> drive from both Win98 and Linux if
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Sarel Botha wrote:
[snip]
> It might be possible to use a program like EZ-Drive to make the maximum
> possible
> size the bios can accept larger. I haven't tested EZ-Drive with Linux yet,
> but I
> can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Check www.westerndigital.com for
Thanks for all the answers you all have sent.
Now I know it will not work with more memory, thanX
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> >> Q2
> >> My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i have
> >> the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a 15
> gb
> >> hardrive?
> >
It might be possible to use a program like EZ-Drive to make the maximum possible
size the bios can accept larger
Jeff,
I recently had the displeasure of finding out all about limits with disk size. I
purchased a 10.1GB IDE disk. Here's the lowdown, gleaned from the in-depth BIOS
FAQ at
ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/faqs/bios.faq. boot sectors use the BIOS Int 13H
service to read blocks from disks. This ca
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> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take
>
>
> >
> > Q2
> > My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i
> have
> > the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to
>
> Q2
> My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i
have
> the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a
15 gb
> hardrive?
Yes but
1: You MUST have the bootable partition (say /boot) completely below
cylinder 1024.
2: Fdisk and Cfdisk proba
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Hanish wrote:
> If we have a software which directly talks to the HardDisk
> controller, then It should be able to curcumvent this problem. However the
> boot partition will most probably have to be in the 8.4GB limit as it is the
> BIOS that load the initial part of the OS.
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Cc: Debian List
Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take
>
>
>Per-Olof Widstrom wrote:
>>
>> I have seen that people get the advise to add a line in lilo.conf that
>> tells how much RAM the sy
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:07:58AM -0800, Jeff Katcher wrote:
> > Q2
> > My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i have
> > the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a 15 gb
> > hardrive?
>
>
> A2
> No
Yes. It's a pure BIOS limit, and as soon as
Per-Olof Widstrom wrote:
>
> I have seen that people get the advise to add a line in lilo.conf that
> tells how much RAM the system have, if they have more then 64 mb, and that
> it is possible to have a larger harddirve then the BIOS can handle. I just
> would like to ask two simple questons a
I have seen that people get the advise to add a line in lilo.conf that
tells how much RAM the system have, if they have more then 64 mb, and that
it is possible to have a larger harddirve then the BIOS can handle. I just
would like to ask two simple questons about this:
Q1
I have a motherboard
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