[ale] RAM and Harddrives

[Greg Freemyer]

2008/4/27 Jon Reagan <jreagan1990 at gmail.com>:
> Thanks, everyone.  The memory (RAM) apparently has 4 chips, but I noticed I
> had only half the RAM when I removed just one.
>
> Is there any place I can look to see the maximum harddrive size that I could
> get?  (in BIOS, etc.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
Guys,

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the BIOS is only used during
boot.  Linux talks directly to the controller and ignores the BIOS.

So you should be able to access anything that is LBA-28 based (up to
128 GiB or 132 GB).  I doubt you will be able to use the LBA-48
commands that are required to access data past 128 GiB.  If you do buy
a bigger drive, it should still work, but only the first 128 GiB may
be accessible.

The secret will be to install a boot partition in the first part of
the disk.  If you don't need windows, etc., then just make your first
partition be a 1 or 2 GB boot partition and you should be golden.

Greg
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