25 Apr
2006
25 Apr
'06
11:59 p.m.
[Note that there are bugs in many early BIOSes that
will crash with
accesses beyond typically at limits beyond 2GB, 1GB or even 512MB.)
Sometimes even worse than that. I have one machine that apparently
simply won't work if a disk over some size (64G? I don't know the exact
limit) is touched by the BIOS - it wedges. But if I tell the BIOS
there's nothing there and let the OS kernel find it, it works fine. (I
remarked on this to a vendor I know who told me my motherboard was so
old it wasn't surprising it wasn't comptaible with newer disks. Gee,
it was all of what, three years old. Oh well, another reason - as if I
needed more! - to avoid peecees.)
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