Large Disk HOWTO
Andries Brouwer,
aeb@cwi.nl
v1.1, 18 May 1998
All about disk geometry and the 1024 cylinder limit for disks.
1.
The problem
2.
Booting
3.
Disk geometry and partitions
4.
Translation and Disk Managers
5.
Kernel disk translation for IDE disks
5.1 EZD
5.2 DM6:DDO
5.3 DM6:AUX
5.4 DM6:MBR
5.5 PTBL
6.
Consequences
6.1 IDE details
6.2 SCSI details
7.
The Linux IDE 8 GB limit
