David Drummond wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT>> So how did you set the BIOS,  since it wouldn't recognized the full 
 RJT>> drive?

 DD>> I let the BIOS auto-determine the drive size (it thought it was 
 DD>> 62Gb). 

 RJT> Was that LBA mode,  or something else?

 DD> Yes, LBA.

That seems to be the defaults in all of what I'm running here as well.

 DD>> I made a smallish (2Gb) partition and installed Linux. Once 
 DD>> installed and booted I simply used fdisk to partition the rest of
 DD>> the drive. Linux doesn't usually use the BIOS to access the drives.

 RJT> Right.  I figured it was something of that sort,  but wanted to know 
 RJT> how you went about it.

 DD>> When I updated the BIOS and got it booting again (had to re-run 
 DD>> liloconfig), I re-started at the beginning and made one big 
 DD>> partiton (and the swap partition).

 RJT> Did you put swap anyplace in particular?  At the beginning?  The 
 RJT> end?

 DD> Two swap partitions at the beginning. The OS boos from partition 3.

My initial install put it at the end,  but what I've done since then,  on
subsequent drives (and therefore easier to re-do the partitioning) has had
swap at the beginning as well.  Either extreme would give roughly equal
seek times and the outer tracks should give a higher transfer rate if it's
going to vary any based on the physical aspects of the disk.

I don't think I'd put two on the same drive,  though.  I did have two
running for a while in this machine here,  one on the drive I'd been
running and one on the drive I put in.  Separate spindles always seems to
be a good way to optimize things.

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