Largest IDE hard drive supported by internal connector

[Maurice Hilarius]

With regards to your message at 07:22 PM 9/15/04, Ted Goodridge, Jr.. Where 
you stated:

>>2GB I believe
>  I'm seeing a lot of drives on ebay listed as 2.1Gig...could you narrow
>down that limit better?  (Advertised sizes don't always equal bios sizes)
>
>Ted


You can put in larger, but you will only be able to address 2GB, I believe..
Of course, once you have Linux up, you can get at the rest, at least up to 
128GB.
The first partition you boot from has to be no larger than 2GB.

It's a BIOS limitation.


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