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[cobalt-users] [OT] Drive Sizes and BIOS (Was Re: raQ3: wrong disksize af OS restore)
- Subject: [cobalt-users] [OT] Drive Sizes and BIOS (Was Re: raQ3: wrong disksize af OS restore)
- From: Tim Dunn <tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed May 22 18:04:22 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> 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.
I believe linux works around the BIOS as well. I remember adding a 10GB
disk to an P90 and having the salesperson say, "It's not going to work".
O'course, he had the answer - buy a new box with the disk... =)
tim
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