On 17 Nov, ivan wrote: > The reason I ask is because Linux reports: > Quantam Fireball SE2.1A, 2014MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63 > > which indicates a 2GB drive. CFDisk agrees and will let me partition to 2GB. > > DOS & BIOS on the other hand report only a 504MB H/D and so does the > Raneesh Partition Manager. > > The machine is an old 486 with AMI BIOS 1992 - is this the problem and if > so, by replacing the BIOS will I have access to the whole of the drive or > is the drive in fact only 504MB and Linux lies ??? Did you put a 2 GB drive in your computer? Most likely it's a 2GB but DOS is so horribly broken that it only sees the first 504 MB of the drive. Just be glad Linux isn't and use the whole 2 gigs. (No, you don't need to upgrade your bios, unless it's giving you boot errors, but there should be something in the bios that says "Ignore boot errors" or something like that). HTH, Peter -- ------- Peter D. Kovacs UIN: 241701 Operator, Perl Programmer, Computer Guy kovacsp@egr.uri.edu http://www.egr.uri.edu/~kovacsp/
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