Re: Large IDE drive, old BIOS question

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From: Tyson Richard DOWD
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 00:00

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nobody@home.now (Deuce) writes:

>I have an old bios with a new EIDE 1.6Gb drive. Under 1.2.13 Linux
>would not properly recognize that drive (Linux is on a 350Mb drive).
>When I upgraded to 1.3.99 I was able to access the large drive
>perfectly.

Strange, I'm still using 1.2.13 and it recognized and used my 2.5Gb EIDE
drive (which was on an EIDE controller as the 3rd drive) without any 
problems. DOS was a different story ;-)

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Date: 1996/06/17
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