Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size
Try using the 'potato' boot disks. These recognise a greater than 8MB disk. I
am using a Dell Latitude with a 12MB hard drive and cfdisk on the potato boot
disks recognises the drive correctly, even the existing ntfs partition was
detected correctly.
Hope this helps..
Johnny.
Martyn Pearce wrote:
> 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.
>
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