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          Ryan Langford

You didn't mention how old your machine is, but if you expect to keep it
awhile why not save yourself agravation over the long run and update your
bios.  Try 800.800.BIOS.

Having said that here is a part of a post that I had saved:

Linux and Ontrack Disk Manager are not compatible.  However, the
larger EIDE drives will work with an older IDE bios and controller
without DM, with just a few restrictions:

1. DOS will only be able to access the lower 1024 cylinders (~500MB).
2. Linux must be booted from a partition below the 1024 cylinder limit
   (if you boot from your 250MB drive, you'll be fine).
3. You may need to include the geometry of the large drive in
   your lilo config file (something like "hda=...").  Some older
   BIOSes allow large cylinder counts, so this may not be necessary;
   my 1991 vintage AMI BIOS allows me to specify 2100 cylinders for my
   1GB WD drive, even though the BIOS only supports 1024 cylinders.
   See the file EIDE.TXT, buried somewhere on sunsite and in the
documentation
   of the latest Slackware distribution, for more details.
4. fdisk will complain if a partition starts right on cylinder 1024;
   you should be able to ignore this error (this might be fixed in a
   newer fdisk than the one I have).

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