Re: 1024 cylinders
From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 03/21/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:43:34 +0000 (UTC)
Baho Utot <baho-utot@philippines-island.org> writes:
]Jean-David Beyer wrote:
]> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
]>> "Xiaoyi Wu" <wxy@kivera.com> wrote in message
]>> news:405B6CEE.5060002@kivera.com...
]>>
]>>>The dual boot section of the RedHat document says that some older BIOS
]>>>can not access more than the first 1024 cylinders.
]>>>
]>>>How old is old? Is there a site that list such thing? Does BIOS setup
I believe it was about 1998 that the new bioses capable of handline
large drives came in.
]>>>page tell you such information? Mine is a 2 year-old Dell 8200 with an
]>>>80GB disk, that has a partition way at the back, that's available for
]>>>Fedora. If possible, I would like to avoid moving Windows partitions
]>>>around.
Sounds fine to me.
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