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Re: Wierd Linux formatting prob with Western Digital's EZ-Drive.



> Now Linux is almost not effected by this limitation because after boot
> the BIOS is disregarded, but the problem is that in order to use large
> hard disks on such a machine sometime a small poece of software known as
> a "disk manager" is installed. This make it so that you can use large
> disks on these machines with DOS/WINDOWS but also means you cannot
> (usually) use Linux on this machine.

It's called 'OnTrack Disk Manager' by WD
We have encountered into a few such a disks at the linux party one year
ago, remember guys? The only solution was to delete (backuped ) everything
and to reformat the disk...



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