[Gllug] Hard disk upgrade for older system

[John Winters]

Anthony Newman wrote:
> John Winters wrote:
>> It certainly isn't a problem having a total disc size more than the 
>> limit - the limit comes about because of some silly choices of field 
>> size in addressing the disc, but it applies to only a single disc at a time.
> 
> Although possibly not a problem by the time this machine was about, I've 
> seen machines of a couple of years older vintage hang during 
> autodetection of ATA disks that were "too large" by the standards of the 
> day.

The trick there is to tell the BIOS that there isn't a disc installed. 
(Set type to "None".)  The BIOS then ignores it but Linux will still 
pick it up.

John
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