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| From: | Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB | ||
| Date: | Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:42:20 | ||
| Message-Id: | 012c380d-5279-d7f5-0d99-eb4b1da42a6e@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB by Vladimir Romanov |
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| 1 | On 7/5/19 8:40 AM, Vladimir Romanov wrote: |
| 2 | > May be your motherboard or BIOS just too old, and it doesn't support |
| 3 | > such hard disks? |
| 4 | |
| 5 | I remember a time when Linux would support large (multi-GB) drives when |
| 6 | the BIOS would not support them. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Linux could bypass the BIOS and talk directly to the drives and utilize |
| 9 | the drive's full capacity. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The idea that Linux can no longer do this with larger drives disheartens me. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 | -- |
| 16 | Grant. . . . |
| 17 | unix || die |