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: 	Never buy a Maxtor ... I have had 2 and they both have had to be
: swapped over because they have bad sectors on them .. or the heads crashed.
: I have had about 5 friends that i know of with exactly the same problem.

: Advice: go for the 2.5gig Quantum if u can afford it .. or the 2gig range as
: they are reliabe and fast. Also make sure to see whether your bios can handle
: these large drives before you buy it .. but the only way to find out would to
: plug it in :)

Linux doesn't use the BIOS.  If the bios doesn't handle large ide drives, and
this is going to be a boot disk, just have the root partition fully below
cylinder 1024.  When linux is running it can access the entire drive.
If this isn't ever meant to be a boot disk, don't worry about it at all,linux
will see the entire thing.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway, email: s316674@student.uq.edu.au
			  robert@karanthia.humbug.org.au (currently down)
                     WWW: http://student.uq.edu.au/~s316674
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