SCSI drives have the 8 GB BIOS limitation on booting as well. So
SCSI won't help. The goods news is that there are new BIOS routines
that have been defined that support disks up to 2 TB. Support for
these new routines will have to added to boot manager software (LILO).
Tony
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From: Christopher Barry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 4:02 PM
To: Nils Rennebarth
Cc: Richardson,Anthony; Hamish Moffatt; p.meidl; debian-user
Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/
Hi,
SCSI is not so expensive anymore, just check out www.pricewatch.com and
www.shopper.com. Unless you want the latest bleeding edge Adaptec
2940U2W
controller, you don't have to dish out a lot of dough for scsi. And there
are
a lot
of $160 4.5 GB Quantum Viking 7200RPM 8ms disks floating around on those
pages.
They use an 80 pin SCA interface, but you can get an adapter to 68-pin
for
another
$20. That's a whole lot of high performance storage for the price, and
storagereview.com rated the viking very well to.
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 03:26:00PM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote:
> > As larger hard drives become more common, maybe soon we'll be talking
> > about the 1024/8 GB problem. As in "Help I've installed Linux in the
last
> > 1 GB of my 10 GB drive and LILO won't boot it."
> That really is a serious concern. Sigh, why is SCSI so expensive?
>
> Nils
>
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