[TriLUG] IDE Hard disk limitations BIOS and Linux

[Brian McCullough]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:18:54PM -0500, Jason Tower wrote:
> some motherboards will choke on disks larger than 137gb.  i recall a 
> 440bx board (with a p2-450, not really -that- old) i had a couple of 
> years ago that refused to boot when a 200gb disk was plugged in.  stuck 
> it in a old dell p-133 and it worked fine.  *shrug*


I had a similar experience with a P-II machine -- don't remember the MB.
I could not get it to boot from a "modern" disk, and had to drop in a
200 megger as the boot drive.

Brian