Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size
Hi!
I just installed potato to Dell Inspiron 7500 with a 18 GB disk with no
problems. What kernel are you using? I think the older kernels won't
support large drives. Also, take a look to Large-Disk-HOWTO.
Hope this helps...
Kari
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Klaus Drews wrote:
> 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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