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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:48:47 -0700
From: randyk <randyk@com>
To: perl <perl@netmug.org>
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Subject: Re: Larger then 8.5GB IDE Support - 2.2 stable
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It's not a BIOS problem. I am loading 3.0 SNAP now which sees it 
fine...someone took it out of 2.2 stable (could you please put it 
back or are there problems???).

Thank you,
Randy Katz

On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 10:22:13AM -0700, perl wrote:
> I've got the same problem, but my bios shows the actual size of the drive.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Randy A. Katz wrote:
> > 
> > > Is support for the larger IDE drives still in 2.2 stable? I loaded it up on
> > > a 4.5GB primary drive and tried to add a 11.5GB secondary and it showed the
> > > partition as 8.xGB...any ideas???
> > 
> > It's probably a BIOS problem.  See the following white paper at IBM:
> > 
> > http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/library/8.4gb.htm
> > 
> > -- Brooks
> > 
> > 
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