Re: [Sheflug] Disk Drive Problem

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> for windoze but I can't even seem to install these so that the motherboard
> BIOSs will recognise the drive types. I just get boot messages saying
> basically that the computer can't identify the drive. Can anyone offer any
> clues as to how I might salvage the situation please?

It would require some BIOS fiddling. Old BIOSs are pretty bad with big
drives, Linux *should* be able to use all the drive space as it doesn't go
via the BIOS for disk I/O.
You may have to read the info off the drives (if they have a label on
them) and manually set it in the BIOS.
As long as you can get the BIOS to recognise the drive at all you should
be OK as regards the size. Just don't try putting Windows on it.


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