Re: 8 GB limit on cfdisk?
In article <[🔎] 199806161646.MAA10047@mmabry-pc.avici.com> you wrote:
:
: I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II
: 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB.
: I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max
: number of sectors to 1024. Mine should have 1227 (approx).
:
: When I boot Linux it identifies my hard drive and says it has 9.6 GB.
: Also, when I used Partition Magic to reformat my windoze 95 area, it
: saw all of my disk.
:
: I am running linux 2.0.34, cfdisk 0.8l (from util-linux-2.8), on
: Debian 1.3.1r8.
:
: Is this a program limitation? Is there a workaround? Is there
: another program for Linux that I could use?
Are you using the setting LBA in the BIOS? I think I do and I have a
8.5GB disk with heads 255 sectors 63 and cylinders 784. Those are not
near any 1024 limit.
Throwing Muses, Limbo,
MartinS
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