Re: Help 1+gig HD

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From: Alan Modra
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00

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Andrew Maxwell (q9110656@helios.usq.EDU.AU) wrote:
: hamish@rising.com.au (Hamish Moffatt) writes:
: >Sunday November 19 1995 11:55, bgerseko@powerup.com.au wrote:
: > > [nonsense deleted]

: >An EIDE controller won't help DOS; you need Disk Manager or EzDrive or 
: >whatever, or better yet: LBA mode.

: So basically, if I buy a 1 GIG hdd, Linux will not be able to access
: all of it...
: So I need to have a EIDE controller.

No, you certainly do not need an EIDE controller.  The person who told
you this did not know what they were talking about.  Linux will quite
happily access all your 1G drive, using an IDE controller, except when
booting.  The boot problem is because LILO, the LInux LOader, uses the
brain damaged PC bios.  You can easily solve this problem by creating
two partitions on your drive with fdisk, a small root partition first,
then the rest of your drive on the second partition.  I use a 50M root
partition.

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From: alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (Alan Modra)
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Date: 1995/12/01
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