Largest IDE hard drive supported by internal connector

[Ted Goodridge, Jr.]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:19:25 -0400, Balint Cristian <rezso at rdsor.ro> wrote:

> On Thursday 16 September 2004 08:55, Ted Goodridge, Jr. wrote:
>
>
>> That makes absolutely no sense.  The kernel and ide driver get the disk
>> geometry from the bios.  The only way around it is a bios-extender  
>> which I
>> don't think exists for linux let alone alpha.  The bios tells the OS how
>> to access the disk.  What you are describing is a lilo issue, which
>> requires the boot part be on the first X# of the disk.
>
>  On alpha the linux kernel and on other arches geometry is not taken out  
> of bios !!!
>
They also get it from the hard disk controller.  If you notice even on  
adaptec scsi cards, it lists a maximum drive size.  There are certain  
barriers with old hardware unable to even deterct the drives because they  
were too large.