[tech] FSCK!

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 06:06:29PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
[...]
> I just got my computer to install Lilo in the MBR perfectly
> from Slink. It turns out that my hard-drive was not setup
> as LBR (or whatever it is) but as "NORMAL". It wasn't 
> immediately obvious in the Bios, I had to do IDE Hard Drive
> Autodetect for it to work.

Ah - the horror of IDE strikes again.

LBA - Linear Block Addressing is one of several changes and hacks done to
keep the old API for talking to MFM drives on the XT limping along... I
wonder what RedHat does differently?

Have a look at the Large Disk HOWTO for some more of the sordid details.
There's apparently 33.8GB and 137GB limits coming up, too...

Nick.

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