[H-GEN] Accessing large disks using an old BIOS

[Sandra Milne]

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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:31:10PM +1000, Stephen Brine wrote:
> I have a IBM disk manager that is universal - I don't use it much now but 
> in the past days gone by I used it with every drive that needed disk 
> managering BUT it will not work with Linux (just in case you were wanting 
> to use it for that) but i used it on my old notebook to get a bigger disk 
> on it. if ya want it give me a hoy I will send it as an image (1.44 floppy)

we used the ibm one last year for a 30 gig drive in a pentium 166 and it
worked fine with linux.... however we had to use lilo instead of MBR to
boot the computer.

Sandra.
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