Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size
> 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.
Did you check www.dell.com? For a couple of their laptop lines they
provide linux drivers.
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