[TriLUG] Any problems with a 160 GB IDE disk?

[Jeff Groves]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, David Rasch wrote:
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>>I had good luck on one of my systems disabling the hard disk in the
>>bios (the bios only detected 138GB of 200GB).
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>I've had to do this with all my old machines as the disks get larger than
>the BIOS can handle. The problem then is that you can't boot off the hard
>disk anymore. I solved this for Linux 2.4.x kernels by booting off a
>floppy, but you can't boot off a floppy with 2.6.x, so I guess these older
>machines will stay at 2.4.x
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>Are there any other solutions?
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>Joe
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Installing an additional 10GB drive to boot off of :-\

Jeff G.