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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:08:57 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: 8G Boot Boundary

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Peter remarked:

> >I know that. The booter-upper uses the motherboard BIOS, thus it can't
> >load anything that's past the 8 GB point.

To which Steven replied:

> Wrong. Your booter upper can't. Anyone running a newish BIOS and
> WSeB/MCP/eCS can.

How much newer a BIOS ? I hope I won't run into this with whatever Award bios comes with the Asus P3B-F
I'm about to move to. (The last BIOS rev. for that board is 1006, but it's probably a couple years old by
now.)

> >In other words, why won't an "old" BIOS work with big drives since,
> >except for booting, the BIOS isn't used?
>
> Not all, just some, won't work. YMMV and you will find out when you
> install the drive.

Well, I'd sure like to find out *before* I put in a larger than 9G drive (the largest size I've worked
with to date).

This sort of reminds me of a different boot question. In principle, I know you can stripe drives, or have
them in a RAID configuration. BUT, if you just have a couple of hard drives in the box, with none of that
fancier arrangement, and the first h/d goes down, are you S.O.L. even though there happens to be a
bootable partition on the 2nd. h/d ? Is there no way you could boot from it, without having to make some
hardware changes ?

Jordan

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