This is true.  The only exception I've encountered is the drive the
computer boots from.  I once set up a server with a 60GB drive on a
machine with a bios that only supported drives up to 8.4 GB.  The macine
wouldn't boot.  I had to boot it from a floppy.  Once the machine started
booting from the floppy it detected the 60 GB drive.

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On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Alan Dayley wrote:

> On Saturday 04 December 2004 09:30 pm, KevinO wrote:
> > Putting a drive too large for the motherboard/BIOS to handle?
>
> This is not a problem for Linux.  The IDE (ATA) controller drivers in Linux
> talk to the controller chip directly and do not depend on the motherboard
> BIOS for hard drive information.  Put a 10GB drive on a motherboard BIOS that
> only sees 8GB and Linux will run the 10GB, no matter what the BIOS says!
>
> Alan
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