Linux-Hams archive - February 1998: Re: fdisk question
Re: fdisk question
Mark Aitken (aitmbeu.ccsojlrolw@ewc-ny.com)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:12:14 +1100
At 04:51 pm 17/02/98 -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>
> If you don't have LBA on your bios, ie: old junker motherboard,
>or, if you just want to, can you use the "expert" part of fdisk and divide
>the number of cylinders by 2, but add 1 back and multiply the number of
>heads by 2?
it's own.
My old 486DX2-66 M/B does NOT have LBA but linux easily detects and
accesses the 2.1G/B Hard drive.
Regards
Mark