Re: [X-post]: [OT] HDD size errors (BIOS?) (longer than usual email)

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatachalam@...> wrote:
>  And remember. If the BIOS does not set up things for you the OS cannot
>  doc much.

Not really.  In addition to BIOS data, the the kernel IDE drivers do their own
hardware detection/probing.

Try disabling your secondary HDD and CDROM drives in BIOS.  The kernel
will still detect and use these devices as usual.

- Raja
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