[plug] BIOSes, >32Gig HDDs & Linux

[Trevor Phillips]

Trevor Phillips wrote:
>
> Is it possible to access the full size of this drive from within linux, 
> without the BIOS support? If so - how?

As an experiment, I removed the limiter Jumper, disabled the HDD in the 
BIOS, and booted into Linux - which detected the HDD fine, and now 
reports it at 40Gig. And reading the existing partition works without IO 
errors. Yay!

So the question is, I suppose, now: Is this correct, and safe? ^_^
Can I rely on Linux to correctly handle this HDD for its full capacity, 
even tho the BIOS wants nothing to do with it?

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