Largest IDE hard drive supported by internal connector

[Bert de Bruijn]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Ted Goodridge, Jr. wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:33:16 -0400, Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com> wrote:
>
>> I rather suspect that larger disks will work just fine,  but that you will 
>> need to keep anything that the bios needs to access, that is anything 
>> needed at boot time, close enough to the front of the disk for the bios to 
>> find.
>
> That makes absolutely no sense.  The kernel and ide driver get the disk 
> geometry from the bios.

Get a HD, define it in the BIOS, install Linux on it. Add a HD, DON'T 
define it in the bios, and boot Linux. Linux will happily see the second 
drive and work with it. Only the BIOS (and the bootloader which uses the 
BIOS disk access functions) doesn't.



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