120GB: Chaintech 6LTS?

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
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stormhead
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Hi out there!

A few weeks ago I got an used Chaintech 6LTS M101 on which I want to build a file server for my flat community. Unfortunately the original BIOS suffers from Award's 32-GByte Bug, so I installed this BIOS http://wims.rainbow-software.org/rainbo ... 206LTS.zip instead.

The BIOS is listed as "supports up to 64 GByte per disk" on http://wims.rainbow-software.org/index.php?count=-1 ; but as such small disks are becoming rare in the latest time I plan to use drives of the 120-GByte-Class (or even bigger drives) instead (system hard drive and CD-ROM are SCSI-devices connected to the OnBoard Adaptec SCSI Host Adapter, so both IDE channels are available for "useful" data storage - allowing for nearly half a terabyte of storage when usen 120-GByte-Drives).

Does anybody know how this BIOS behaves when seeing a drive larger than 64 GByte? Does it crash, does ist simply not recognize the drive, does it only see the first 64 GBytes, or how will it react?
Operating system will bei Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.X (whatever version will be available when the system will go into "prodution use"; at this time it's 2.6.8. The operating system is already installed on a 2.1 GByte SCSI drive), so the latter two variants would inflict no problems - but the first one would be really bad (although it could be eventually solved by not entering the drives into BIOS setup - since the system doesn't boot off the IDE controller, this should also be no problem).
Has anybody got any experience with the mentioned board, BIOS and drive size? Or can anybody "extrapolate" the most likely behaviour of thios BIOS from the code?

Thanks in advance,

stormhead
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