Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Klaus Drews wrote:
>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 ?
To get my Thinkpad 600 with it's 10G IDE drive recognised properly I had to
run a 2.3.x kernel. Then when I knew the correct numbers I added the
following to my lilo.conf:
append="hda=XXXX,YYY,ZZ"
Numbers removed to avoid people typing them in to their own systems and
stuffing things.
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My current location - X marks the spot.
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