Re: 8 GB limit on cfdisk?
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Str|mberg <ams@ludd.luth.se>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:05:24 +0200
Mark> I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my
Mark> Dell P-II 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it
Mark> sees only 8 GB. I believe that this is due to a limit in
Mark> cfdisk which sets the max number of sectors to 1024. Mine
Mark> should have 1227 (approx).
Mark> When I boot Linux it identifies my hard drive and says it has
Mark> 9.6 GB. Also, when I used Partition Magic to reformat my
Mark> windoze 95 area, it saw all of my disk.
Mark> I am running linux 2.0.34, cfdisk 0.8l (from util-linux-2.8),
Mark> on Debian 1.3.1r8.
Mark> Is this a program limitation? Is there a workaround? Is
Mark> there another program for Linux that I could use?
Martin> Are you using the setting LBA in the BIOS? I think I do and
Martin> I have a 8.5GB disk with heads 255 sectors 63 and cylinders
Martin> 784. Those are not near any 1024 limit.
Yes, LBA is enabled in the BIOS.
Mark
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