[LUAU] 4.3 Gig Drives

[Shawn Evans]

Interested

bbraun at sparcy.synack.net wrote:

> 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
>  |