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Re: I'd like to buy a 2MB+ IDE hard-disk
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> BTW, I heard there's some adapter so new UltraDMA drives can be used on
> the older buses. Is it true?
You need NO adapter to run an UDMA drive on an old machine but
DOS/Windoze/BIOS needs a piece of software to patch the geometry view so
you can use the whole disk. You don't need this for Linux, iff you put
the boot kernel under the 500M mark.
Peter