Hello All,
Normally I would have asked this question over at TiVo Community forums, but they have been down for several days (and will be for several more). I bought a large hard drive (180GB) and would like to replace my current/OEM single-drive (40GB). I have read the Hinsdale(sp) How-To and one thing has been bothering me ...
I have been playing, on and off, with Mandrake Linux since 4.x, but not recently (stopped around 7.x). I just downloaded the new ISO's, but aside from this I am trying to understand the hard drive limit in terms of size. You see, I was under the impression that beyond POST (power on self-test), Linux does not use the BIOS for disk I/O geometry determination. While under this belief, and I suppose I am now wrong, the disk drive had no real BIOS-centered limitation for the Linux operating environment.
Being that TiVo runs on Linux, hence TiVo Linux, I was wondering if I thus have over-killed myself in buying such a large hard drive (i.e. should have bought a 120GB drive, instead). Can anyone shed any light on this matter?
Normally I would have asked this question over at TiVo Community forums, but they have been down for several days (and will be for several more). I bought a large hard drive (180GB) and would like to replace my current/OEM single-drive (40GB). I have read the Hinsdale(sp) How-To and one thing has been bothering me ...
I have been playing, on and off, with Mandrake Linux since 4.x, but not recently (stopped around 7.x). I just downloaded the new ISO's, but aside from this I am trying to understand the hard drive limit in terms of size. You see, I was under the impression that beyond POST (power on self-test), Linux does not use the BIOS for disk I/O geometry determination. While under this belief, and I suppose I am now wrong, the disk drive had no real BIOS-centered limitation for the Linux operating environment.
Being that TiVo runs on Linux, hence TiVo Linux, I was wondering if I thus have over-killed myself in buying such a large hard drive (i.e. should have bought a 120GB drive, instead). Can anyone shed any light on this matter?