48-bit LBA enhancement to the ATA interface - Hard disk drive (HDD) interface questions

[' =JeffH ']

tuxebi at gmx.de said:
> All you need it that Linux can recognize "some partition" to boot from, via
> the bios. This can be small and within the (say) first 120GBs. ;-))

> After this, the OS itself will control any harddisk you might have. 

ah ha. ok, so that perhaps explains why someone posted a response to my 
corresponding query in the "Ubuntu Forums > The Ubuntu Forum Community  > Main 
Support Categories  > Dell Ubuntu Support" forum wherein they said they are 
using a 250GB Samsung disk internally without any  problems on the same system 
as I have.

thanks,

=JeffH