[TriLUG] IDE Hard disk limitations BIOS and Linux

[Rick DeNatale]

Oh, I'm sooooo confused now.

First of all, I really don't care if can can boot from the large
drives  I figure that I can continue to use the existant 9MB SCSI boot
drive, although I was figuring to start the large drives with a
smallish partition just in case.

I hadn't run across the idea of the MOBO itself limiting the disk
size, but I suppose that it might.  This machine uses the 440BX
chipset and dual Pentium IIs.

I guess I'm just going to have to try, but I won't buy everything at
once.  I guess I'll have to follow an algorithm like this.

1. Drive from Wake Forest to Raleigh to buy 1 large HD.
2. See if it works.
3. If yes go to step 7
4. Drive from Wake Forest to Raleigh to buy PCI IDE controller
5. See if this works.
6. If no exit with failure and figure out what to do with my new hardware.
7. Drive back to Raleigh to buy second drive.

Now, I guess I could I go ahead and buy a pci card in step one, and
save one trip. Does anyone know whether or not the PCI IDE ATA133
Controller Card that Intrex sells works with Linux?  One advantage of
this is that I could each of the four IDE Drives on a separate
channel.