Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

[Martyn Pearce <martyn@inpharmatica.co.uk>]

Kero van Gelder writes:
| > 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 ? 
| 
| ``Linux says''...
| fdisk? disk druid? other partitioning programs?
| 
| 12GB is quite big (==new? ==unsupported?) for a LapTop drive. I have
| no idea what it could be.

I have a I7K, potato-ized.  I have a 14Gb drive thereon, it works fine.
What geometry mode have you set?  LBA?  CHS?  "Big"?  What does fdisk -l 
report as the disk geometry?  Mine says 240H, 63S, 1826C.

Mx.