[NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware issues... motherboard

[Chris Cox]

Greg Edwards wrote:

> Douglas King wrote:
> 
>>I have just recently purchased a new ECS model K7S5A motherboard.  I am
>>trying to install a Western Digital 100 gig drive into the system as the
>>"data drive".  However, the BIOS only sees the first ~30 - 33 gigs.  Most
...snip...
> 
> In BIOS either set LBR on for the drive and let it autodetect or set the
> cyl, hd, sector values manually.  Some BIOS's will work either way and
> some will only work 1 or the other way.  You may have to do trial and
> error on these but one of them should work.
> 
> The OS does not matter here, its a BIOS issue.
> 

Of course the OS does matter in this case.  As long as Linux can see the
drive, it will likely see ALL of the space regardless of what your BIOS
tells you.  We're rapidly moving toward BIOS-less-ness....(pro or con).