Re: 8 GB limit on cfdisk?
"Mark H. Mabry" wrote:
> Even though my BIOS is using LBA, and the kernel sees all
> 9.6 GB of my disk, the fdisk and cfdisk seem to use the C/H/S
> settings.
I could be wrong about this; I'm no expert.
I have a PD-CD drive, and early Linux drivers would detect and use it (I
could mount it and read/write), but fdisk couldn't handle it (to change
partitions for example). The fix was to pass the gemeotry as a boot
parameter. I added this to lilo.conf:
append="hdc=634,64,32"
#append="hdc=cylinders,heads,sectors"
(For device /dev/hdc obviously)
Maybe this would help?
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