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david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) wrote:

>freemant@wr.com.au (Kent Tong) writes:
>>There is a mini-howto dealing with installing Linux on large EIDE
>>drives. The procedures include telling the kernel the real disk
>>geometry on the command line. Is this still required (ie, is the
>>how-to up-to-dated)?

>Not if your BIOS supports LBA translation mode. Here is what my system reports:

>hda: IBM-DJAA-31700, 1628MB w/96kB Cache, LBA, CHS=827/64/63
>hdb: Maxtor 7540 AV, 514MB w/32kB Cache, LBA, CHS=523/32/63
>hdd: FX001DE, ATAPI CDROM drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

>All the programs I have used (DOS FDISK, Linux fdisk, LILO and Linux itself)
>are quite happy to use the geometry listed above. I think this worked even back
>with 1.2.13.

Yes, you're right. It turns out that my Award 4.50g BIOS does
support it because the kernel does say "LBA, CHS=blah/blah/blah". 
The strange thing is the BIOS setup screen doesn't mention
anything about LBA at all.


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