Since Linux doesn't use bios after loading the kernel, this 
should not be an issue for it.  
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html 
has an excellent discussion and history of these issues.

Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike neuliep [mailto:mike@illiana.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:49 AM
> To: gdascher@home.com; kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: new partition
> 
> 
> Wow, I didn't know you could have a /dev/hda9.  Though bios 
> only allowed eight
> partitions on an IDE device.  /dev/hda1-4 are primary and 
> /dev/hda5-8 are 
> extended.  This might have something to do with the problem.
> 
> 	Mike
>