I'm seeing advertisements for IDE drives with over 20 GB capacity. I realize that one of the problems with really large IDE drives has been that BIOS doesn't report the geometry properly.
However, if I don't plan to install the drive with any bootable partitions (as a second slave drive, say), then won't the disk geometry be completely understood by the linux kernel, perhaps helped out by some boot parameters? Also, how do I discover the true disk geometry? Can I simply read what's printed on the drive? Some of the large drives I've seen advertised are Maxtor 20.4 GB, Seagate 28 GB, Maxtor 36 GB. And a scsi Seagate 50.1 GB. Thanks for any help Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
