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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
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Subject: Re: LBA and Large IDE driver with 2.1R
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> Are there any known problems with large IDE drives in
> 2.1R. I have one that I've loaded several times and it
> just keeps crashing. The same image on a 540 drive
> runs on the same physical machine runs fine.

I'm runing 2.1R on a 1Gig drive with LBA w/out problems.  But, you
*have* to have the entire root partition below the 512MB boundary.


Nate