[Gllug] Large hard drives on old motherboards

[George Saxby]

Hi,
  40gb seems to be as big as you can go with P2 era mobo's. Anything over that size althoough seen properly by the bios always seem flakey, this is purely from my own experience with about 6/7 machines.

George F. Saxby
    Systems Engineer
       I.T.S. Team

>>> jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com 02/10/03 10:16am >>>
Hi,

I'm looking to get hold of an old pentium computer and stick a large hard
drive in it to use for storage.  What I'm not usre about is whether I will
have any problems using a large (say 60Gig) IDE drive with an old
motherboard.
I know there are problems with the bios being able to boot from large hard
drives but I understood that as long as the BIOS could see the partition
with the boot image in it (and the boot image was visible to the BIOS too)
then it would boot OK and when linux loaded it talked directly to the IDE
controller.  So I guess my question is that assuming I am right with the
BIOS issue will I have any problems from the IDE controller and large disks?

JD

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