[ale] WD 10.1 hard drive...again

[ymca at havoc.gtf.org (No one in particular)]

>I've heard that this has something to do with the BIOS. These hard drives even
>have problems with Windows without the special drivers. So, you aren't going to
>be able to get them to work under the current linux distributions until someone
>writes software to handle it. Sorry. I have heard of no success stories with
>hard drives larger than 6.8G under linux.
>
>V

There is some discussion of large (>8GB) drives on Ask Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/12/22/1143236

Don't know if this addresses what was needed or not.

ymca