[LUAU] 4.3 Gig Drives

[bbraun at sparcy.synack.net]

Oh yeah, extensively dealt with the 1024cyl limit.  Fortunatly, with
any modern bios (I don't know of a bios that was manufactured in the
last 4 years that doesn't have this), has mappings so it appears that
the drive is less cylinders than it really is.
Anyway, if you have a relativly new machine, its not a problem.

However, if you have an older machine, only boot off a partition that
fits into the first 1024 cylinders.  Although... I did figure out a way
to make the drive mapping software work with lilo and linux, if anyone
is interested in it for pure hack value.  =)

Rob

On Wednesday, Dec 1998 at 18:42:14 George Toft wrote: 
 | Zachary Taylor wrote:
 | > On another note, I am installing RedHat on a new computer, 2 harddrives,
 | > both 4.3gig. They have over 1024 cyls, and fdisk says this can cause
 | > problems. Anyone got any first hand info on this?
 | 
 | Limited - I have a 4.3 gig that fdisk complained about.  I stored data 
 | on it OK, but I never tried to boot from it.
 | 
 | George
 |