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  From: Geoffrey D. Bennett <g@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:02:26 +1030 (CST)

Re: Big disk drive + small PC + linux

> Linux disk drive software experts,
> 
> I'd like to add a 10 GB disk to my Digital Venturis 466
> computer with AMD 486DX-66 CPU etc.
> 
> I remember seeing somewhere that such old computers are not
> able to address such a big disk, either (a) just at boot time
> from the BIOS, or (b) at any time.
> The OS is redhat 5.2 linux.

The (short) answer is (a).

> The disk will use the second IDE port. Apparently the secondary master
> (/dev/hdb).

The second IDE port gets hdc and hdd (master and slave respectively).
hdb is for the first IDE port (slave).

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Geoffrey D. Bennett (geoffrey@netcraft.com.au)
Computer Systems Manager, NetCraft Australia
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/
Red Hat Linux Resellers: http://www.netcraft.com.au/linux/

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