[ltp] Hardrive for a 760XL

[Alexander Gran]

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It actually depends on the bios. Most older ones just ignore the extra spac=
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and see just as much as they can. This is generally enough to boot lilo and=
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kernel. The kernel then ignores the bios info and uses the whole drive. I'm=
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running a desktop machine (40Mhz) with an 60GB harddrive just fine. Bios se=
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540MB, linux the rest. However I've seen a pentium's board bios not even=20
booting with more than 10GB.

regards
Alex

Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2003 17:20 schrieb Adam Southerland:
> Nice... 10Gb would be awesome! =3D)
>
> So, any laptop HD should work as long as I have the caddy for it?
>
> I'll see what I can dig up tonight as I'd love to have a bigger HD... =3D)
>
> Adam
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Bert Haskins <bhaskins@chartermi.net>
> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Hardrive for a 760XL
> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:54:19 -0500
>
> Don't let anyone !@#$ you up about bios HD size limits.
> A few years ago I had a 760XL with a 10 gig drive.
> WIN98SE and Linux (at least RH 7.3 and later) don't
> seem to be bothered by bios limits, I was able to use the whole
> disk.
> Just try to use a HD caddy that is for a 2.1 or larger drive to
> avoid jumper issues.
>
> Go Linux!!!,
>      Bert
>
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