[sclug] [OT] Linux support for large HDD

[Ian Park]

Please forgive a "wet behind the ears" question...

I'm planning to use an oldish (ca 1998) motherboard (300 MHz Pentium II, 
512MB RAM) as the basis of a fileserver for my home network, using a 
6.3GB hard drive as the primary master for the OS and a 160GB hard drive 
as the primary slave for the file store. I'm pretty sure that the BIOS 
on the motherboard won't support 48-bit LBA, so the *BIOS* won't be able 
to see the full capacity of the 160GB hard drive (hence the 6.3GB drive 
for the OS...); however what I've been able to glean from Googling gives 
me hope that once I've got Linux booted up from the 6.3GB drive the BIOS 
is irrelevant, and the Linux kernel drivers will look after the big hard 
drive.

Can anyone tell me whether or not I'm being hopelessley optimistic, please?

TIAFYH

Ian
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