Re: [cobalt-users] raQ3: wrong disksize af OS restore

[Bill Campbell <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:11:03PM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
>Alainna Wonders wrote:
>
>> It's sad, but true... It's not a Kernel limitation... it's actually a
>> CMOS limitation, so I really don't see a way around it :/
>> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...
>
>Nope... 
>
>We've got RaQs running larger drives; I'll find out how large and report
>back.
>
>I believe the RaQ, like many or most Linux distributions, only needs the
>CMOS to read the drive at bootup; that's why there's a bootup partition
>limitation.  Read the Linux large-disk HOWTO.

SCSI drives have never suffered from the BIOS limitations, only with the
2GB limitations of early Unices.  The original IDE drives were restricted
to about 500MB.

Bill
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