Re: > 13 G IDE hard disk

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:14:47 -0400 (EDT)


Yes. If your kernel is >2.0.33.

The ide spec only covers upto 8gig.. But the later kernels do the right
magic..

Goto http://www.arcticnet.net/ and check out the linux screenshots for
some examples of 13gig WD IDEs. :)

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Balaguru Nallathambi wrote:

> hi,
> I have a 13G Western digital IDE hard disk.
> >From what I read after I purchased the disk is that both the OS and the BIOS
> should have support to support disks > 8G.
>
> Does Linux have support for > 8G.
> will fdisk in Linux partition disks > 8G.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -)Bala.
>
> P.S. I don't know if this is the appropriate mailing list, if this is the
> wrong one pls. give me a pointer to the appropriate one.
>
>
>
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