Re: Debian + HardDrive 250GB
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Lorenzo wrote:
> My problem is that it only recognise a maximum of 30GB (glurps !! :-) after
> setting up with fdisk utilities.
> I tried different specifications in fdisk but no success, i'm stuck with the
> number of Cylinders : the drive specifies 266305 and fdisk don't let me
> specify more than 65535.
>
> Does anyone have an idea/suggestion/tips to help me ?
You have to increase the number of heads or sectors. Alternatively, if it
is not going to be a boot disk, you can make a DOS partition table (maybe
in a x86 PC). Linux/Sparc handles it with no problems (see "Advanced
Patition Selection" in the linux kernel).
-- Jan Houstek
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