🚀 go-pugleaf

Paul Wilkins wrote in article <3456DC75.2CA161FB@tmpw.com.au>...

>Senet News Feed wrote:
>>
>>  Any one know if linux will work with a 1.3 gig hd and an older 486
>> motherboard that dont support drives > 540mg, will linux be able to acces
>> the entire drive.
>> I currently have a disk manger (overlay or whatever there called) on the
>> drive and it can use the entire disk no poblems but if i try using fdisk
>> from linux boot/root disk the partition is competely up the sh.t so
>> obviously you can't use it with a the overlay installed, I just wanted to
>> know b4 i wipe everything on there if linux will access the entire disk
or
>> just 540 mg (like win95 did) when i used it with out the overlay ?
>
>
>From the Linux FAQ
>
> Question 4.1.  How can I get Linux to work with my large disk ?
>
> If your disk is an IDE or EIDE drive you should read the file
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.ide (part of the Linux kernel
>source
> code).  This README contains many helpful hints about IDE drives.  Many
> modern IDE controllers do translation between `physical'
> cylinders/heads/sectors and `logical' ones.
>
> SCSI disks are accessed by linear block numbers; the BIOS invents some
> `logical' cylinders/heads/sectors fiction to support DOS.
>
> DOS will usually not be able to access partitions which extend beyond
>1024
> logical cylinders, and will make booting a Linux kernel from such
> partitions using LILO problematic at best.
>
> You can still use such partitions for Linux or other operating systems
> that access the controller directly.
>
> I'd recommend creating at least one Linux partition entirely under the
> 1024-logical-cylinder limit and booting off that; the other partitions
> will then be OK.
>
>
>You read that last line? Good.
>
>And from the Hardware HOWTO
>
>  Large IDE (EIDE) drives work fine with newer kernels. The boot
>  partition must lie in the first 1024 cylinders due to PC BIOS
>  limitations.
>
>There you have it. Fsck your hard drive, mkfs, and you're laughing.
>(Of course, backup your data before you do this).
>
>Paul

Thanks a bundle Paul i'll give it a try, Sorry to every one I thought I had
seen it in the Howto's B4 but was stuffed if i could find it when i needed
it. (didn't even think of the hardware :(

Mark Vandersteen