[ale] HD size limit?

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joe)]

"Robert E. Karaffa, II" <rkaraff at emory.edu> writes:

> hi folks,
>     I've got an old ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 mobo running mandrake 8.2 that acts as
> an mp3 server for my home LAN.  256RAM, 5GB boot drive, 40GB storage drive.
> problem is that the award bios limits HD size to 32GB.

Don't worry about it. As long as the BIOS understands the geometry
of the drive you *boot* from, all will be well - Linux does its
own detection of the hardware. So boot it and run "fdisk /dev/hdb"
(or whatever the 40G drive is) and you should be able to partition
the entire drive.

Cheers,

-- Joe
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