DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

[Klaus Drews <klaus_drews@gmx.net>]

Hallo,

I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read,
I thought this one would work with Linux. But:
First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled
with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all 
partitions under DOS, formatting and the mbr, Linux pretends to see a 
7,7GB harddisk.
Is this a known bug with some controllers ? Is there a driver to fix it ?
Any other ideas ? 

Klaus.

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