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Posted: Dec. 20 2005,13:07 QUOTE
I don't know about dos, but the bios certainly had problems: most 486s had a 512 MB limit, early pentiums 2 GB, later pentiums 8 GB, and the P3-550 that I am using right now needed a new bios to accomodate a 80 GB drive.
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Posted: Dec. 21 2005,06:45 QUOTE
Thanks for your reply.

As I have said, there is no (apparent) problem with the bios.  Using the "user" define approach to the hard disk (ie: specifying the cylinders, heads and sectors) got the bios to recognise the disk.  Also, both DOS and Win98 had no trouble with the size/geometry of the disk, just linux.

Does anyone know how to "tell" linux the actual disk geometry?

Geoff.
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