Big disk in old bios

[Russell McOrmond]

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Eric Cyr wrote:

> One - There's an option in most BIOSes (called LBA, if I remember correctly)
> that will help them handle drives over 137G. It might be there, but turned
> off.  Might at least save you the re-install.

   I assume you mean 48-bit LBA which Linux supports, but my BIOS does not.

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