>I have a QDI motherboard (Intel tx chipset) with a dual ultra DMA 3 Eide
>controller and a new maxtor 4.3 gb ultra DMA 3 HDD.
>The HDD is patitioned as follows c:\ - 3.0 gb NTFS d:\ 1.2 GB Fat16. Mys
>stem boots off the root 3.0 gb partition into NT. I want to put RH 5.0 on
>the 1.2 gb fat16 partition. I do know that my drive and motherboard
>supports LBA (mode 2 is how things run). Do I have a problem here with the
>1023 cylinder issue or am I safe?
>
>This 1023 iussue reminds me of the same problem dos used to have with
>drivers larger than 512mb.
Take a look at your disk layout in the BIOS when you boot. Take the number
of heads and sectors it tell you is has per cylinder and multiply that by
512 and then by 1024. That will tell you how many bytes there are in 1024
of the disk's cylinders. If that number is more than what you have for the
Linux root parition, then you are OK. If your Linux partition is LARGER
than the number, then you could be in trouble.
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